* The Great Plant Hunt – a primary school science initiative created by Kew Gardens, commissioned and funded by the Wellcome Trust

There are also Newbury College, a further and higher education college funded by private finance initiative and Mary Hare School, a residential co-educational community special school for deaf pupils.

The initiative was funded with an initial $ 500, 000 matching contribution from Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, whose donation to the Twin Towers Fund was refused by then-Mayor Rudy Guliani because it came with a letter attributing US support for Israel for the 9 / 11 attacks.

The Consortium for Functional Glycomics ( CFG ) is a large research initiative funded in 2001 by a glue grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences ( NIGMS ) to “ define paradigms by which protein-carbohydrate interactions mediate cell communication ”.

* In November 2005, Raytheon launched ' MathMovesU ', an educational initiative intended to make math and science more interesting and accessible for young people, funded by $ 1 million in annual grants.

The Knight Lab is a joint initiative of Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism and the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced in 2011.

* eWater Cooperative Research Centre-Australian Government funded initiative supporting water management decision support tools

Also the OASIS international standards body has produced standards funded in part by the DHS and the disaster management e-gov initiative to communicate in emergencies.

As a part of a nationwide initiative funded by the Office of Justice Program ’ s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention ( OJJDP ), The United States Department of Justice had announced a grant from the Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce Program to the Dallas Police Department on 10 January 1998.

The venture was largely funded by the Gothenburg Public House Society, which donated over £ 7, 000 to the initiative.

The program's similarity to the Total Information Awareness ( TIA ) federally funded initiative that was terminated following public concerns contributed to Matrix's demise.

In March 2010, Abbott, announced a new policy initiative to provide for 6 months paid parental leave, funded by an increase in corporate tax by 1. 7 per cent on all taxable company income of more than $ 5 million.

Its implementation was frozen in June 2010 amid allegations that the police deliberately misled councillors about its purpose, after it was revealed that it was being funded as an anti-terrorism initiative, rather than for ' reassurance and crime prevention '.

The area became the focus of a targeted regeneration initiative, led by the Castle Vale Housing Action Trust ( CVHAT ) from 1993 to 2005, where the estate witnessed the demolition of many of its housing stock and facilities, the refurbishment of remaining properties, and the construction of new housing and facilities along with the remodelling of the estate, funded both privately and publicly.

Its implementation was frozen in June 2010 amid allegations that the police deliberately misled councillors about its purpose, after it was revealed that it was being funded as an anti-terrorism initiative, rather than for ' reassurance and crime prevention '.

The initiative was convened and personally funded by British privacy activist Simon Davies who has since then been director of the organization.

* Ethnic Minority Achievement Service ( EMAS ), Ethnic Minority Achievement Service-A Government funded educational initiative ( DCFS )

Childress and the two most prominent supporters of the initiative within the Arizona state legislature, Russell Pearce and Randy Graf, then formed a separate organization, Yes On 200, which was funded almost entirely by out-of-state interests.

This became part of the " Illinois Service " initiative in 1971 and is partially funded by the Illinois Department of Transportation.

In November 2004, MPP funded and ran the campaign that succeeded in passing a statewide medical marijuana initiative in Montana with 62 % of the vote.

The University was established and its development funded via a joint venture between Bond Corporation in Australia and the Japanese entity, EIE, at the initiative of Alan Bond, the founder and Chairman of Bond Corporation.

* Prime Movers is a pilot initiative funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

It is funded under a private financial initiative through a consortium ( special purpose vehicle name “ Citylink ”), who undertake to devise, procure, construct and maintain Connect for an initial twenty year period.

It was funded under the Atoms for Peace initiative during the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

To perpetuate wealth control led by small groups of individuals who played no role in its creation prevents those with real initiative from coming to the fore, and is basically anti-democratic.

There is even some question whether the U.S. can any longer defend itself against an initiative by the Left.

This trade was subject to a tariff of 7.5 per cent after February 1835, but much was smuggled into Assiniboia with the result that the duty was reduced by 1841 to 4 per cent on the initiative of the London committee.

King Alexander tried to reconcile political parties by unveiling a liberal constitution of his own initiative, introducing for the first time in the constitutional history of Serbia the system of two chambers ( skupština and senate ).

Despite this, some towns, like Alcácer do Sal in 1217, were conquered from the Moors by the private initiative of noblemen.

Altogether, the boule was responsible for a great portion of the administration of the state, but was granted relatively little latitude for initiative ; the boule's control over policy was executed in its probouleutic, rather than its executive function ; in the former, it prepared measures for deliberation by the assembly, in the latter, it merely executed the wishes of the assembly.

* 2010 – California's Proposition 8, the ballot initiative prohibiting same-sex marriage passed by the state's voters in 2008, is overturned by Judge Vaughn Walker in the case Perry v. Schwarzenegger.

In November 1995, the presidents of Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zaire ( currently Democratic Republic of Congo ) announced a regional initiative for a negotiated peace in Burundi facilitated by former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere.

Continuing Arab disquiet over Allied intentions also led during 1918 to the British Declaration to the Seven and the Anglo-French Declaration, the latter promising " the complete and final liberation of the peoples who have for so long been oppressed by the Turks, and the setting up of national governments and administrations deriving their authority from the free exercise of the initiative and choice of the indigenous populations.

Then in 1948, another initiative banned the use of seine nets ( devices already used by Native Americans, and refined by later settlers ) altogether.

The most recent developments on the island have included the reopening of the border between the two sides, and the failure of an attempt to reunify the island under the terms of a United Nations-sponsored initiative guided by the UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan.

From its earliest inception as a single service initiative formed in 1981 by Columbia University undergraduates, Community Impact has grown into Columbia University's largest student service organization.

In 1974, an initiative was taken by L. Ottens, a director of the audio industry group within the Philips Corporation in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

On November 30, 1992, by the initiative of the President of the Russian Federation the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation recognized the Red Terror as unlawful, which in turn led to suspension of the Communist Party of the RSFSR.

Using the SAFE strategy ( acronym for surgery for in-growing or in-turned lashes, antibiotics, facial cleanliness, and environmental improvements ), the World Health Organisation aims for the global elimination of trachoma by 2020 ( GET 2020 initiative ).

Egypt and Syria, supported by the Soviet Union, openly opposed the initiative.

The precise facts have been obscured by history, but modern historians believe Nerva was proclaimed Emperor solely on the initiative of the Senate, within hours after the news of the assassination broke.

Pope Pius XI, in Quadragesimo Anno, provided the classical statement of the principle: " Just as it is gravely wrong to take from individuals what they can accomplish by their own initiative and industry and give it to the community, so also it is an injustice and at the same time a grave evil and disturbance of right order to assign to a greater and higher association what lesser and subordinate organizations can do.

He noted, ' Captains ... to be successful must possess, in a marked degree, initiative, resource, determination, and no fear of accepting responsibility ', and particularly regarding wartime conditions '... as a rule instructions will be of a very general character so as to avoid interfering with the judgement and initiative of captains ... The admiral will rely on captains to use all the information at their disposal to grasp the situation quickly and anticipate his wishes, using their own discretion as to how to act in unforeseen circumstances ..' The approach outlined by Beatty contradicted the views of many within the navy, who felt that ships should always be closely controlled by their commanding admiral, and harked back to reforms attempted by Admiral George Tryon.