Team Jennifer Cahill Charities - Supporting Our Female Veterans

04/06/2026

The newest VA data is heartbreaking. As the report states, “among female Recent Veteran VHA Users in 2023, the su***de rate was 45.3% higher for those with positive screens for Military Sexual Trauma.” It also shows that “the su***de rate in 2023 for female Veterans was 103.1% higher than for female non‑Veteran U.S. adults.”

Source;https://www.mentalhealth.va.gov/docs/data-sheets/2025/2025_Annual_Report_Part_2_508.pdf

These aren’t numbers. They’re women who served our country and carried trauma no one should ever face alone.

Since Jennifer passed, I’ve held tightly to the mission we built together. She believed fiercely in standing with women Veterans who felt unseen or unsupported — and I’m committed to carrying that work forward in her honor.

As America turns 250, our 250 for 250 campaign is our promise to them: 250 years of women’s service honored by 250 supporters giving $250 to provide crisis support, dignity, and hope.

If this moves you, please stand with us.
Honor their service. Carry the mission forward. https://givebutter.com/250250-for-250-tu55tp

Celebrating 250 years of women in service to the USA

04/04/2026

For those who celebrate it, hope you have a Happy Easter

03/23/2026

When researching and studying the history of women in America’s military, one pattern becomes impossible to ignore: progress has always depended on people who stepped forward long before the system was ready for them.

Women served this nation for generations without rank, recognition, or even the basic rights afforded to others. They didn’t wait for permission. They didn’t wait for validation. They simply chose to serve because the mission mattered.

As someone who works in advocacy and communication, I’m struck by what that says about leadership - real leadership isn’t about titles or visibility - it’s about stepping into the gap when the moment demands it, even when the world hasn’t caught up.

That’s why the 250 for 250 campaign resonates so deeply with me.
It’s not just about honoring history. It’s about acknowledging the people who carried this country forward when no one was watching - and ensuring today’s women veterans don’t face the same invisibility.

If we want a stronger future, we have to recognize the people who built the foundation.
That’s the work we’re committed to.

Celebrating 250 years of women in service to the USA

03/18/2026

250 for 250 + Save the Date

🇺🇸 Save the Date! 🇺🇸

Team Jennifer Cahill Charities is proud to announce the 4th Annual Women Veterans Day Expo coming June 12, 2026 — a day dedicated to honoring the courage, service, and sacrifice of the women who helped defend our nation.

This year’s Expo is especially meaningful as we continue our 250 for 250 campaign, celebrating 250 years of women’s military service and inviting 250 supporters to give $250 in their honor. Every contribution helps ensure that no woman veteran walks alone.

At this year’s Expo, we will:
✨ Celebrate the legacy of women who served
✨ Share stories too often left out of history
✨ Connect women veterans with vital resources
✨ Support those facing cancer, MST, homelessness, DV/IPV, su***de risk, and end‑of‑life challenges

✨ Strengthen our community’s commitment to women who served

Your support makes a real difference.
Your voice helps amplify their stories.
Your presence shows our women veterans that they are seen, valued, and never forgotten.
https://givebutter.com/250250-for-250-tu55tp

03/10/2026

Honoring Women Who Served — Past, Present, Always

March is Women’s History Month — a reminder that the story of America has never been complete without the women who wore the uniform.

Some served without rank.
Some served without recognition.
Many served without ever being called “veteran.”

Yet for 250 years, women have stood watch, carried the mission, and shaped the nation in ways history is only beginning to acknowledge.

At Team Jennifer Cahill Charities, we believe their service deserves more than a footnote. It deserves a future — one where women veterans are seen, supported, and honored in every chapter of our national story.

That’s why we launched 250 for 250:
A tribute to 250 years of women’s service, and a challenge inviting 250 supporters to give $250 to uplift the women who continue that legacy today.

Because when we invest in women veterans, we’re not just honoring history.
We’re shaping what comes next.

250 years behind us. A stronger future ahead.
And every one of us has a role in writing it.

Celebrating 250 years of women in service to the USA

03/03/2026

This is a brief story of the first woman who was officially recognized as a veteran and given a military pension. This happened long before women were officially considered to be part of the military. It would be 176 years later on June 12, 1948, that the Women's Armed Services integration act would be signed.

Show your support and recognition of 250 years of women in service to this country.

Donate here https://givebutter.com/250250-for-250-tu55tpShow :

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/margaret-cochran-corbin

02/26/2026

Sarah Emma Edmonds
Sarah Edmonds
Sarah Emma Edmonds
Union soldiers during the Civil War knew a comrade known as Franklin Flint Thompson, but in reality, Thompson was really a woman -- Sarah Emma Edmonds -- and one of the few females known to have served during the Civil War. Edmonds was born in Canada in 1841, but desperate to escape an abusive father and forced marriage, she moved to Flint, Michigan, in 1856, where she discovered that life was easier when she dressed as a man. Compelled to join the military out of a sense of duty, she enlisted in the 2nd Michigan Infantry as a male field nurse.

As "Franklin Flint Thompson," Edmonds participated in several battles that took place during the Maryland Campaign of 1862, which included the Second Battles of Manassas and Antietam. As a field nurse, she would be dealing with mass casualties, especially at Antietam, which is known as one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. She is also said to have served as a Union spy and infiltrated the Confederate army several times, although there is no official record of it.

One of her alleged aliases was as a Southern sympathizer named Charles Mayberry. Another was as a Black man named Cuff, for which she disguised herself using wigs and silver nitrate to dye her skin. And yet another was as Bridget O'Shea, an Irish peddler selling soap and apples.

Malaria eventually forced Edmonds to give up her military career, since she knew she would be discovered if she went to a military hospital, and her being listed as a deserter upon leaving made it impossible for her to return after she recovered. Nevertheless, she still continued serving her new country, again as a nurse, though now as a female one at a hospital for soldiers in Washington, D.C.

In 1865, Edmonds published her experiences in the bestselling "Nurse and Spy in the Union Army," and went on to marry and have children. But her heroic contributions to the Civil War were not forgotten and she was awarded an honorable discharge from the military, a government pension and admittance to the Grand Army of the Republic as its only female member.

(military.com)

02/25/2026

We have spoken with many Women veterans. One thing that sticks out with almost all of them, is that rarely do they talk about the burdens they carry — the long nights, the fear, the moments they held the line when no one else could.

They talk about the mission. They talk about the people they served beside. They talk about moving forward.

But behind every woman who served, there’s a chapter she never wrote down.

As America turns 250, we’re choosing to honor those unwritten chapters — the courage, the sacrifice, the strength that helped shape our nation in ways most people never see, or begin to understand.

250 for 250 is more than a campaign. It’s a promise: That their stories matter. That their service won’t be forgotten. That this community stands with them.

If you feel that too… you’re already part of what we’re building.

Celebrating 250 years of women in service to the USA

02/19/2026

Here’s something most people don’t know…
Women have been serving in the U.S. military for 250 years —
and America is only now catching up to that truth.

They fought in disguise.
They served without rank.
They saved lives without ever being saluted.
They built this nation’s strength in every war we’ve ever fought.

And yet…
Women veterans are still among the most unseen heroes in America.

So for the nation’s 250th birthday, we’re doing something bold.

250 for 250
250 donors
$250 each
Honoring 250 years of women who served

Your donation doesn’t just help a woman veteran —
it rewrites the story of who gets remembered.

If this made you pause, feel something, or learn something new…
donate, then share it.
Let’s make sure the next 250 years look different by making sure that the women who serve don't walk alone, are seen and voices their heard.

Donate here:

Celebrating 250 years of women in service to the USA

02/15/2026

Sharing the stories of the women who served. This is just one of the many stories of women in the Military that few have heard.

Jaimie Leonard graduated from West Point in 1997 and began her Army career with the 10th Mountain Division.

Her path wound through the fragile peace of Bosnia in 1999, the dust-choked battles of Iraq in 2005, and the rugged heights of Afghanistan in 2011 and 2013. Across sixteen years of unwavering commitment, she gathered three Bronze Stars and two Meritorious Service Medals—not as trophies, but as quiet testaments to lives steadied by her hand.

In a Memorial Day reflection for her hometown Warwick Advertiser, her words cut clear and close: “Please honor them in deed… Take measure of what you have done for your country and ask yourself if you could have done more.”

On June 8, 2013, in the sun-baked expanse of Paktika Province, Afghanistan, Major Leonard and two fellow Americans fell to insurgents cloaked in the uniforms of allies they had trained. She was then the highest-ranking woman lost in the Global War on Terrorism—a sentinel who guarded the line until its end.

Promoted posthumously to Lieutenant Colonel, she rests now in the gentle slopes of West Point Post Cemetery, her grave a gathering place for echoes of reveille and the measured steps of those who salute her still.

God bless this American hero.

02/13/2026

🎉🇺🇸 Celebrate America’s 250th Birthday by Honoring 250 Years of Women Who Served 🇺🇸🎉

For 250 years — long before they had rank, recognition, or even the right to be called veterans — women have been serving this nation. They disguised themselves as men to fight in the Revolution, nursed the wounded in the Civil War, decoded enemy messages in WWI, flew aircraft in WWII, and today lead troops, command ships, and stand watch around the world.

Yet even now, women veterans remain some of the most unseen and unsupported heroes in America.

For our country’s 250th birthday, we’re doing something bold, meaningful, and deeply patriotic:

We’re inviting 250 people to give $250 — one donor for every year women have served this nation.

Your gift becomes part of a living tribute. Your name becomes part of a historic milestone. Your generosity becomes part of a woman veteran’s story of hope.

This isn’t just a fundraiser — it’s a birthday gift to the women who helped build the United States of America.

Join the 250 for 250 Honor Roll. Stand with the women who have always stood for us. Help ensure no woman veteran goes unseen, unheard, or walks alone.

Donate here:

Celebrating 250 years of women in service to the USA

02/12/2026

Women veterans who survived Military Sexual Trauma carry invisible wounds — and they deserve a space where they feel safe, believed, and supported. If you’re a survivor reading this today — woman or man — please hear this: you are not alone, you are not forgotten, and you deserve healing.

MST impacts far too many of our nation’s heroes: 1 in 3 women veterans and 1 in 50 male veterans. At TJCC, our mission centers the woman veteran, but our compassion extends to every survivor who has carried this pain in silence. No one should have to walk that road without support.