Le Mond/the World

* Turkey: NGO report on BP's Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline raises human rights concerns (BP response provided)
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/522973

* Increasing access to essential medicines in developing countries: UK Govt. launches framework for good practice in pharmaceutical industry, with input from companies including GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, Merck, Pfizer
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/862213

* Global coalition of 83 NGOs & social investors makes recommendations on business & human rights to UN Commission on Human Rights
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/35831

nonProfits Work

Nonprofits Crucial to North Carolina Economy
Asheville Citizen-Times
A study in Western North Carolina has tracked the impact of nonprofits on the region�s development. The results: nonprofits are a critical sector in the state economy. Already, nonprofits employ more people than construction, professional and business services, and finance or information services. Nonprofit leaders hope the findings will help dispel the outmoded image of nonprofits as entities with perpetually outstretched hands.
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GOODWILL of PITTSBURGH - Job Fair

Goodwill Industries of Pittsburgh is an equal opportunity employer.

JOB FAIR

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 -
A variety of local employers will have the opportunity to meet
hundreds of motivated and prepared job seekers.
Attached are details, instructions and forms
for reserving tables and ad space.

For more information, please call Tim Smith at 412-390-2208 or
email: tsmith@goodwillpitt.org

from the Desk of Donna Little

Hello, Friends -
Attached is information about the UPMC Health Plan Rainbow Kitchen Community Services W.A.R. (Walk And Ride) Against Hunger. This is a walk and bicycle-ride fundraising event, to be held on the beautiful Yough River Trail on April 30th. Please join us if
you can, and also help us to get the word out by forwarding this information to everyone you know who might be interested.

Thank you!
Donna

Donna Little
Executive Director
Rainbow Kitchen Community Services
135 East 9th Avenue
Homestead, PA 15120
412-464-1892 phone
412-464-1069 fax

April 30th - Rainbow Kitchen Walk & Ride

This event is sponsored by Rainbow Kitchen. The Rainbow Kitchen is having a Walk and Ride (W.A.R.) to raise money to fight hunger. The date is April 30, 2005, on the Yough Trail. For more information call: (412) 464-1892.

Event Day: Saturday, April 30th
Location: Yough River Trail
Cost: For more information, call: (412) 464-1892.