Popular initiative A popular initiative (also citizens' initiative) is a form of direct democracy by which a petition meeting certain hurdles can force a legal procedure on a proposition. In direct initiative, the proposition is put directly to a plebiscite o ...

is a political process by which a referendum can be triggered by a petition of voters. Initiative or The Initiative may also refer to:

Fiction

* '' Avengers: The Initiative'', a comic book series from Marvel Comics * '' Civil War: The Initiative'', a comics crossover storyline from Marvel Comics *

Fifty State Initiative ''Avengers: The Initiative'' is a comic book series from Marvel Comics. Written by Dan Slott and Christos Gage with artwork initially by Stefano Caselli, Steve Uy and Harvey Tolibao, the series handles the aftermath of Marvel's "Civil War" sto ...

, a fictional government program in the Marvel Comics Universe *

The Dharma Initiative The Dharma Initiative, also written DHARMA (Department of Heuristics and Research on Material Applications), is a fictional research project and organization featured in the television series '' Lost''. It was introduced in the second season epi ...

, a fictional organization from the television show ''Lost'' * " The Initiative", the seventh episode of season 4 of the television show ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' * "Initiative" (''Slinger's Day''), a 1987 television episode

Games

Initiative (chess) Initiative in a chess position belongs to the player who can make threats that cannot be ignored, thus putting the opponent in the position of having to spend turns responding to threats rather than creating new threats. A player with the initiati ...

, the ability in chess to make attacks that must be responded to *

initiative (role-playing games) In most tabletop role-playing games (RPGs), an initiative system determines in which order player characters and non-player characters take their actions, to avoid confusion on when a character gets to act. These derive from RPGs roots in tablet ...

, a number which determines the order in which characters take actions, especially during combat

Organizations

Initiative (agency) Initiative is an American media planning and buying agency that is part of IPG Mediabrands, the media buying arm of multinational holding company Interpublic Group of Companies. Initiative's roots date back to 1970. The company is based in Ne ...

, a media buying agency that is part of Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG) *

The Initiative Collective The Initiative Collective (sometimes truncated to simply "The Initiative") is a group of organizations located in cities throughout the United States and internationally .Their goal is to promote personal safety through neighborhood watch activiti ...

(aka "The Initiative"), a worldwide group of grassroots neighborhood watch organizations *

Initiative of Communist and Workers' Parties The Initiative of Communist and Workers' Parties (INITIATIVE) was a Marxist–Leninist European political alliances, European political alliance. Founded by the Communist Party of Greece in 2013, the initiative had 30 member parties from all ov ...

(INITIATIVE), a European Marxist–Leninist political group

Other

Initiative Q Quahl ( ), formerly known as Initiative Q, was an attempt to create a new payment network and digital currency. It was created by Israeli entrepreneur Saar Wilf, who previously founded Fraud Sciences, a payment security company acquired by Pay ...

, an alternative payment network *

The Initiative (Tunisia) National Destourian Initiative (, ) or El Moubadra was a centrist political party in Tunisia that merged into Long Live Tunisia in 2019. Emerging from the Constitutional Democratic Rally (RCD) of ousted president Ben Ali, it was formed after t ...

– a political party *

The Hawkeye Initiative The Hawkeye Initiative is a satirical Tumblr page similar to Women in Refrigerators that comments on the depiction and treatment of female characters and superheroes in comic books. The site features fan art of Marvel character Hawkeye in variou ...

, a tumblr page that features comic book character Hawkeye in various poses held by female comic book characters *

The Initiative (company) The Initiative is an American video game developer and a studio of Xbox Game Studios based in Santa Monica, California, formed in 2018. The studio is currently working on a new installment in the ''Perfect Dark'' series. History At E3 2018, Xbox ...

, a video game development company based in Santa Monica *

One Watt Initiative 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to s ...

, energy-saving initiative {{disambiguation