History and Mandate:
- Founded in 2014 by Jane West and Jazmin Hupp.
- Mandate to connect, educate, and empower diverse leadership in the emerging legal cannabis industry.
- Aims to create 1,000 women-owned cannabis companies.
Organization and Events:
- Focuses on holding networking events with notable speakers.
- Past events featured speakers like Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and Dina Titus.
- Vice named the Toronto chapter one of the most influential organizations in the Canadian cannabis industry in 2016.
Recognition and Impact:
- Women Grow Edmonton spurs female entrepreneurship in the cannabis industry – CBC News.
- ‘420: Meet 5 of the Most Powerful Women in the Cannabis Business’ – Fortune.com.
- ‘Women in Weed’ – Newsweek.
References:
- ‘Women lead growth in medical cannabis industry’ – www.bizjournals.com, 3 August 2016.
- ‘About – Women Grow’ – Women Grow.
Categorization:
- 2014 establishments in Colorado.
- 2014 in cannabis.
- Cannabis in Colorado.
- Cannabis industry trade associations.
- Organizations established in 2014.
Women Grow Data Sources
| Reference | URL |
|---|---|
| Glossary | https:/glossary/women-grow |
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_Grow |
| Wikidata | https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28312814 |
| Knowledge Graph | https://www.google.com/search?kgmid=/g/11c2qls4b9 |
| DBPedia | http://dbpedia.org/resource/Women_Grow |
| Product Ontology | http://www.productontology.org/id/Women_Grow |