"Given its dedication to education reform and extensive networks in the space, the Gates Foundation is the ideal partner for us to scale the Startup Weekend EDU initiative," said Farb Nivi, founder of Grockit about the grant from the Gates Foundation.
Mitsubishi and BMW's Mini launched their UK electric vehicle trials at the weekend; both initiatives are part-funded by the British Government's Technology Strategy Board which will support tests involving 340 alternative fuel vehicles from several manufacturers.
We recently came across The StartupBus, a Startup Weekend-like initiative, except that it involves a bus and a roadtrip.
Some weekend-opening initiatives designed to pave the way for the government's pledge to introduce seven-day GP access were scaled back recently because too few patients turned up.
And as the New York Times highlighted over the weekend, our anti-gang initiative is helping us take back our parks and our communities for our youth and families.
This weekend hundreds of such initiatives are under way across the country, despite increasing official attempts to stop them.
Citing unidentified sources at the Commerce Ministry, the semiofficial China Daily newspaper reported over the weekend a package of initiatives would be started in mid-September, including tax rebates, insurance, loans and other measures.
Counterprogramming initiatives this weekend include period true tale Summer in February, with Dominic Cooper and Downton Abbey's Dan Stevens; Joss Whedon's low-budget Much Ado about Nothing; Paul Rudd/Tina Fey comedy Admission; and US indie Stuck in Love. 1.
On Thursday, the JPMorgan spokeswoman said bankers would continue to get protected weekends under the new initiative.
None of the barriers to a healthy life for my inner-city patients are insuperable – diabetic clinics could open at weekends, healthy cooking initiatives have been shown to work, screening schemes could be based across the community and pharmacies could become bastions of accessible preventive healthcare.
