{"id":44728,"date":"2025-05-29T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=44728"},"modified":"2025-05-28T17:08:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T21:08:14","slug":"venison-donation-grant-program-now-accepting-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2025\/05\/29\/venison-donation-grant-program-now-accepting-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Venison Donation Grant Program Now Accepting Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Funds available to cover processing fees for donated deer<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_44730\" style=\"width: 364px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/venisondonationprogram.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44730\" class=\" wp-image-44730\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/venisondonationprogram.jpg\" alt=\"Person carving meat\" width=\"354\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/venisondonationprogram.jpg 400w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/venisondonationprogram-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-44730\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maryland DNR photo<\/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\">\u00a0is now accepting applications for its<a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/Venison-Donation-Grant-Program.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> 2025 venison donation grant program<\/a>. Grant money is available to organizations to assist with the direct costs of butchering and processing deer with the resulting venison being donated to programs who assist Marylanders in need.\u00a0<\/span><\/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. Eligible grantees are county governments, municipal corporations, or any 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Applications for venison donation grants must be received by 11:59 p.m. on June 16, 2025. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/Venison-Donation-Grant-Program.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">More information and applications<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> are available on the department\u2019s website.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funds available to cover processing fees for donated deer The\u00a0Maryland Department of Natural Resources\u00a0is now accepting applications for its 2025 venison donation grant program. Grant money is available to organizations to assist with the direct costs of butchering and processing deer with the resulting venison being donated to programs who assist Marylanders in need.\u00a0 A<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2025\/05\/29\/venison-donation-grant-program-now-accepting-applications\/\">&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":[957,3172],"tags":[3059,5458,4960,3837],"class_list":["post-44728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-hunting","tag-deer","tag-donations","tag-hunting","tag-venison"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44728","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=44728"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44732,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44728\/revisions\/44732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}