Jacksonville, Fl \u2014 This week, we honor the powerful journey of women who have served our nation.<\/p>\n
Women Veterans Ignited is hosting a week of events highlighting women who have invisible scars from service. <\/p>\n
\u201cOne out of ten women that you encounter would have served in the military. We have a large community of women veterans here in Northeast Florida.\u201d, said Dee Quaranta, President and CEO at Women Veterans Ignited. <\/p>\n
The nonprofit helps women who have served on active duty, National Guard or Reserves transition into the civilian community with the tools they need to be self-sufficient. <\/p>\n
This 12th Annual Women Veterans Recognition Week features a series of events designed to educate, empower, and celebrate. <\/p>\n
Women Veterans Ignited operates a resource center to provide supportive services and resources to women veterans. <\/p>\n
But they are scaling back after Quaranta says her organization lost $955,000 in state funding. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re having to downsize and close our doors a few days a week to make sure that we are still at least provide the food pantry. I don\u2019t know if we\u2019ll continue to outreach to the entire state. But locally we will do what we can. I have a great team of employees who are also women veterans and they\u2019re saying we\u2019ll just come and work. We\u2019re not going to get paid.\u201c, Quaranta said. <\/p>\n
The organization is turning to other potential funding sources to fill the gap, and Quaranta is hoping that the community rallies together to help them keep the doors open. <\/p>\n
One way to support Women Veterans Ignited is by sponsoring Saturday\u2019s gala<\/a>, which will honor legends of service. <\/p>\n \u25b6 Listen to Jacksonville\u2019s Morning News Interviews<\/a><\/p>\n [\u00a0Read more local news from WOKV<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and traffic app. And click here<\/a> to subscribe to our daily 3 Big Things newsletter.<\/p>\n \u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville, Fl \u2014 This week, we honor the powerful journey of women who have served our nation. Women…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[796,794,28,116,118,117,795,349,13469,3393,126063,126062],"class_list":["post-299936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-796","tag-duval","tag-florida","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-ne-florida","tag-northeast-florida","tag-veteran","tag-veterans","tag-women-veterans-ignited","tag-women-veterans-recognition-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}