Between 1994 and 2002, more than $300m was raised in America for dozens of AIDs and breast-cancer charities at bike rides and walks organised by a profit-making fund-raising outfit called Pallotta TeamWorks. Then, in August 2002, after many of the charities decided to bite the hand that fed them, the Los Angeles-based organisation was forced to close, sacking its 350 employees. The final straw had been the decision by Avon Products Foundation to launch its own version of a three-day breast-cancer walk developed by Pallotta, which it fired.
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