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TOUR de CURE 2008 to benefit the American diabetes Association:

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Tour de Cure 2008: Take the Ride of Your Life!

 

Welcome!

I hope you will find this handcrafted lens a unique and useful resource for your Tour de Cure experience. Learn about what other cyclists are doing and unique ways to energize your fundraising, motivate your team & inspire yourself!

Tour de Cure is a series of fund-raising cycling events held in 40 states nationwide to benefit the American Diabetes Association.

So take a look around and while you're here check out Buttons of Hope and consider making a custom photo button to wear in support of a loved one during your 2008 Tour de Cure! Let's kick diabetes BUTT!

Official 2008 Tour de Cure website 

Handy links to help with your ride...

2008 Tour de Cure homepage
The Tour is a ride, not a race, with routes designed for everyone from the occasional rider to the experienced cyclist. Whether participants ride 10 miles or 100 miles*, they will travel a route supported from start to finish with rest stops, food to fuel the journey and fans to cheer them on!

Last year, more than 32,000 cyclists in 78 Tour events raised nearly $13 million to support the mission of the ADA...read more
Find your Tour de Cure
To request more information on a Tour de Cure event near you...read more
Team up!
There may be no I in team but there definitely is FUN!

Training and fund raising together makes it that much easier to reach your goals. Teams can be made up of co-workers, friends, family members or anyone who wants to do a great ride for a great cause...read more
Training Tips
Follow these tips and your Tour de Cure will be a breeze...read more
Top Ten Fundrasing Tips
A great cause makes raising money easy especially if you check out these tips...read more
We Thank You!
And her some neat stuff for you -- our way of saying thanks...read more

Make your own custom photo button to wear in honor of a loved one. 

To the world it may be just a photo button, but to one person that photo button may be the world!

Try something new this year! Show them WHO you're riding for. Honor a loved one or support a friend by wearing a custom photo button with their picture on your jersey during your 2008 Tour de Cure fundraising ride and while training.

Make your custom button today at Buttons of Hope


  1. No Minimum - make one custom photo button if you like

  2. Upload a photo and add custom curved text

  3. $1 from each photo button donated to the American diabetes Association

Energize your fundraising...Motivate your team... and Inspire yourself! Put a face on your cause today!

Free Hope.... 

well a couple of Free Hope buttons anyway!

To me Hope is not a passive word. Hope is action -- talk to anyone who has been touched by the Susan G. Komen family and you'll see what I mean!

Maybe this says it best...

be the change you wish to see in the world...ghandi



CLICK HERE for your free Hope buttons and if you plan to do the 3 Day or Race for the Cure let me know & I will send you a reminder in plenty of time to make a your custom photo buttons!

Absolutely everything you need to know about cyling from David Fiedler! 

Whether it's your first Tour de Cure event or you are a cycling, fundraising monster - David's posts at About.com are interesting and informative. This is really good stuff!

From David Fiedler:
"In being the About.com guide to Bicycling, I have a great opportunity to share my passion with others who also love bikes, as well as to help people who may be just now getting into cycling."

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Tour de Cure on You Tube! 

Rotating disply of Tour de Cure videos: Like a box of video chocolates, you never know whatyou might get!

Tour de Cure Montage

A Montage of video from Fridays interview of me on WXIN Fox 59 and pictures from the Tour de Cure Indianapolis, Indiana event I rode today. Soundtrack : Crazy Train- Ozzy Osborne Buy the compact disc and support the artist!

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Just about everything you need to know about diabetes from Debra Manzella 

Debra Manzella, RN at About.com provides a wealth of info about diabetes -- learn something new or start your diabetes learning process

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What am I thinking? Michael Gibbons' Behind the Button blog 

Inspired stories about the people behind the photo buttons we make & some thoughts on fundraising & charities from the founder of Buttons of Hope.

Have a story to tell? Please send it to me along with a picture and we'll post it on Behind the Button!

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"A year ago Mike Gibbons had never done any fund-raising. Now he hopes
to change the world" Regan White in "Message in a Button", Charlotte Weekly November 2006.

Upon reading that I was at first taken aback -- not exactly the kind of thing you want to lead with especially if your stated goal is to "change the face of fundraising". But as I thought about it IT IS PRECISELY what I want people to know and now I open all of my fundraising seminars with that line.

Fundraising is not easy nor is it as hard as you might think. I am proof of that and I am out to help ordinary people do extraordinary things -- the task is not easy but the answer is inside of each of us!

I kinda wish Regan had use this opening line instead.. 

"Here's to the crazy ones...because the people who are crazy enough to THINK they can change the world, are the ones who do."

Maybe the combination of the two sums it up -- I have been lucky enough to find a group of remarkable people, my cycling team MojoRiding and together we have become somewhat of a fund raising phenomenon (often in spite of ourselves I might add!) --we raised over $110,000 in 2007 for cancer and multiple sclerosis causes.

So how did we do it? We personalized our cause, we told a story, many stories! And then we took it a step further we made it tangible -- many of us made photo buttons of our loved ones to wear while fundraising -- can't fully explain it but there is just something powerful about these little buttons  --I have seen it make a difference and in some cases all the difference!

I hope you will take a look around (grab a cup of coffee) at what I am building here on Squidoo. I have tried to make unique, useful and updated lenses on active charity events. If you like the lenses then please visit my blog Behind the Button and of course my website Buttons of Hope -- where you too can go on make a custom photo button to wear in YOUR charity event 

The title of the full quote above is THINK DIFFERENT. Regan was right I am out to Change the World by helping people to not only think different but to be different -- it will change you and together we will be the change we wish to see...I hope one button at a time!

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