{"id":38570,"date":"2023-04-26T08:15:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T12:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=38570"},"modified":"2023-04-28T06:48:42","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T10:48:42","slug":"maryland-department-of-natural-resources-announces-newly-created-venison-donation-grant-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2023\/04\/26\/maryland-department-of-natural-resources-announces-newly-created-venison-donation-grant-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Department of Natural Resources Announces Newly Created Venison Donation Grant Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Money Available to Cover Processing Fees for Venison Donated to Charitable Causes<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 366px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4423\/36921649216_82c1a127be.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of two bucks in the woods\" width=\"356\" height=\"229\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maryland&#8217;s deer hunting seasons run from September to February. Photo by Reinhardt Sahmel, submitted to a previous <a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/photocontest.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources Photo Contest<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0announced the creation of a venison donation grant program. Money is available to county governments, municipal corporations, and 501(c)(3)tax exempt organizations to assist with the direct costs of butchering and processing deer for venison to be donated to programs to assist Marylanders in need.\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A total of $25,000 will be awarded, and grants will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Applications for venison donation grants must be received by 11:59 pm May 8, 2023. More information and applications are available on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/Venison-Donation-Grant-Program.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Department of Natural Resources website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Money Available to Cover Processing Fees for Venison Donated to Charitable Causes The\u00a0Maryland Department of Natural Resources\u00a0announced the creation of a venison donation grant program. Money is available to county governments, municipal corporations, and 501(c)(3)tax exempt organizations to assist with the direct costs of butchering and processing deer for venison to be donated to programs<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2023\/04\/26\/maryland-department-of-natural-resources-announces-newly-created-venison-donation-grant-program\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3172],"tags":[3059,4960,3837],"class_list":["post-38570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hunting","tag-deer","tag-hunting","tag-venison"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38570"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38588,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38570\/revisions\/38588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}