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Toronto startup and MaRS client Guardly announces that it has entered into a partnership with the California Association of REALTORS (C.A.R.) to provide a smartphone app that helps real estate agents stay safe on the job.

As stated in MaRS Press release "IDC Canada has featured MaRS client Mensante as one of its "Ten Canadian Health Companies to Watch" in 2009. Leading international psychiatrists, family physicians, psychologists, work place mental health experts and mental health economists developed an innovative web-based mental healthcare system called FeelingBetterNow(R).The College of Family Physicians of Canada has reviewed and approved FeelingBetterNow(R) as a practice management tool available to assist family physicians in patient care. The Ontario Medical Association approved the program for its members' personal use."

The Canadian Space Commerce Association will be holding its annual meeting in Toronto on Tuesday, March 16th with the theme "The Growing Canadian Commercial Space Sector" at the MaRS Centre.

The MaRS Centre, designed by Adamson Associates Architect, was one of the recipients who won the Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) awards for design excellence.

MaRS Discovery District won a Communication Management - Social Media award from the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Toronto OVATION awards.

10 nonprofit models that are commonly used by the largest nonprofits in the United States. (See "Funding Models" on page 37.) Doesn't prescribe a single approach for a given nonprofit to pursue. Instead, helps nonprofit leaders articulate more clearly the models that they believe could support the growth of their organizations, and use that insight to examine the potential and constraints associated with those models.

Lisa Torjman, Associate, Development for Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programs at MaRS. Mention of Torjman's role at MaRS and what the SiG @ MaRS program is about. Mention of Torjman's most recent project "Net Change" - a week-long event exploring social technology and social change.

Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) at the MaRS Centre in Toronto Saturday Feb 6, 2010.

Five architectural teams face the challenge of reinventing a site considered to be Toronto's birthplace. Adamson Associates Architects is on the short listed firms. Mention of Adamson being responsible for the restoration and renovation of the MaRS Centre at College and University. The project included the reformation of the College Wing of the historic Toronto General Hospital and stitching that into contemporary buildings and public atrium space.

"The Canadian Association of Journalists and the CAJ Education Foundation are kicking off the decade with a groundbreaking conference where news staff and management can learn about emerging techniques, technologies and models to transform journalism for the 21st century. This conference will focus on skills, strategies and tactics that news organizations can start implementing immediately. It will be held on Jan. 30 at the MaRS Centre, a major innovation hub a stone's throw from Queen's Park in Toronto."

"The Canadian Association of Journalists and the CAJ Education Foundation are kicking off the decade with a groundbreaking conference where news staff and management can learn about emerging techniques, technologies and models to transform journalism for the 21st century. The conference focuses on skills, strategies and tactics that news organizations can start implementing immediately. It will be held on Jan. 30 at the MaRS Centre, a major innovation hub a stone's throw from Queen's Park in Toronto."

Peter Moreira states "Canada badly needs to develop its VC industry." Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association is a MaRS Discovery District tenant as is working to increase venture capitalist across Canada.

As stated in Harold Doan and Associates Ltd, "Researchers from the University of Toronto (U of T), the King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) and Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) have created the most efficient solar cell ever made based on collodial-quatum-dots...a technology licensing agreement has been signed by U of T and KAUST, brokered by MaRS Innovations (MI), which will will enable the global commercialization of this new technology." 

"Hydrogenics, a MaRS Client was selected as 2011 Later Stage Award Top 30 Finalist by Global Cleantech Cluster Association. "

"It has been reported that the amount of venture capital invested in Ottawa is slipping. The Venture Capital & Private Equity Association has been observing more early stage companies receiving help from incubators such as MaRS Discovery District in Toronto."

Jon Arnold is Principal of J Arnold & Associates spoke at the MobileMonday Toronto event, Feb 6 at the MaRS Centre regarding the outlook for wireless.

Ethical Ocean is a MaRS Client who specializes in selling socially responsible products only made a strategic pivot in their model. Nathan Monk, a senior associate with MaRS Discovery District in Toronto and an adviser in the Web and mobile technology startup community, says it's important to constantly review and test business models or hypotheses.

"The Continental Automated Buildings Association this week announced the recipients of its inaugural Building Intelligence Quotient (BiQ) Awards. The annual awards recognize property owners and operators whose buildings achieve the highest rank using CABA's building technology assessment tool. MaRS Discovery District was one of the 2012 Gold recipients"

Jason Flicks shares his insights of his successful adventures with his companies levering IP and provides entrepreneurs ideas for alternative funding options for their ventures. i.e. MaRS Centre helping entrepreneur and associate professor at the University of Toronto with his project of radical uses of Bluetooth.

MobileMonday Toronto, Canada's leading mobile industry networking association, will be having it's  seventh annual venture capital panel pitch event at the MaRS Centre on March 5th, 2012.