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Cycling Road Fundraiser – Cyclist’s social network helps him raise funds for diabetes cure

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For David Sloan, online social networking doesn’t mean Facebook. It means raising more than $20,000 for the American Diabetes Association using his personalized Tour de Cure Web site.

“I asked literally everybody that’s in my Outlook contact database for donations,” said Sloan, who’ll ride in today’s Tour de Cure, a bike ride from San Antonio to Austin to benefit the ADA. “And I got some real surprises as a result, because there are always people looking for some place to donate to charity, but they just don’t know where to give.”

Last year, Sloan was top fundraiser for Tour de Cure in Texas, and the ninth-biggest fundraiser across the nation.

This year, the state’s only Tour de Cure ride is being held…  Details

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