Every One Makes a Difference!
A two-day bike ride to fight HIV/AIDS in the Chicagoland area.

Early registration is now open for the Ride For AIDS Chicago 2009

Click here to register

Thank you for making the Ride for AIDS Chicago 2008

the most successful Ride to date,

raising more than $110,000 for

Test Positive Aware Network (TPAN) and Better Existence with HIV (BEHIV)

Click here to read the post-Ride Press Release.

Ride for AIDS Chicago is a two-day, 180-mile, bicycling event created by volunteers and designed to raise needed funds for TPAN and their community partners.

The ride leaves Evanston on Saturday morning on the journey to Williams Bay, Wisconsin, on the shores of Lake Geneva. We'll start off from the city and soon after find a route of shaded bike paths and country roads. After arriving in Williams Bay, you may opt for a refreshing hot shower or a cool dip in Lake Geneva. Later, you'll enjoy a delicious hot meal. This will be followed by an evening of star-gazing or making smores at the campfire. You'll sleep in one of the many cabins, waking up to a crisp Wisconsin morning while a hot breakfast awaits you in the dining hall.

Riders will return to Evanston on Sunday following the winding roads of southeast Wisconsin and shaded bicycle paths of northeast Illinois and then into the city. Upon returning, family and friends will welcome us home at a joyous closing ceremony.

Each rider is asked to raise a minimum of $1,000 in pledges and crew members are asked to raise a minimum of $500 to participate.

We're completely grass roots and committed to returning 100% of donations we receive to our beneficiaries: Test Positive Aware Network (TPAN) and Better Existence with HIV (BEHIV).. We did it with the first four years of the ride, so we have a pretty good track record. We are able to do this by keeping costs down. Your registration fee along with corporate sponsorship dollars covers the expenses of doing the event.