On Wednesday January 11, 2023 the Hunters for the Hungry program received a grant from the Community Foundation of the Dan River Region for $5,000! We would like to express our deepest and most sincere thanks and appreciation to the Foundation and its Board for their blessed support! 

The Community Foundation of the Dan River Region, www.cfdrr.org, is a Danville based Foundation whose mission is to improve and enrich the lives of people in their community by encouraging the generosity of donors; by receiving, managing and distributing important resources; and by meeting a variety of charitable purposes in the community. The Community Foundation of the Dan River Region serves the City of Danville and Pittsylvania County to South Boston/Halifax County, Virginia, and Caswell County, North Carolina.

Their vision is to recognize the needs and provide resources to improve the quality of life in the communities they serve and to serve the wishes of their donors.

This grant of $5,000.00 will allow the program to cover the processing costs for deer donated by hunters, farmers, and through herd management efforts. These deer afford us the ability to provide feeding and distribution programs a source of high protein red meat for their clients. These grants dollars will allow us to process and distribute approximately 3,636 pounds of venison which will provide over 14,500 quarter-pound servings to those in need through God’s Storehouse, the Northern Pittsylvania County Food Pantry, and Victory International Ministry Food Pantry, as well as any other area missions, churches, and food pantries in the Foundation focus area.

If you have been so blessed and are able to make a financial gift of any amount to support the Hunters for the Hungry program as we begin 2023 please click here! We are receiving bills from the 2022/2023 hunting seasons and your support is a blessing!

Hunters for the Hungry receives grant from the Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation!

The Hunters for the Hungry program received a timely grant from the Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation, www.lynchburgfoundation.org, to assist with their feeding efforts throughout the City of Lynchburg and the Counties of Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford and Campbell. The Foundation blessed the program with a grant of $7,000.00 which was made possible through the Sackett-Graves Fund. These dollars will afford the program the ability to cover the processing bills received from the 2022/2023 deer seasons and will provide over 5,000 pounds, 2.5 tons, of lean high protein venison to feeding programs within the Foundation focus area. This will allow the program to distribute approximately 20,360 quarter-pound servings to men, women, children, the elderly, the homeless, and veterans who are food insecure. We express our deepest and most sincere gratitude to the Sackett-Graves family and the Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation for their blessed support!

HUNTERS FOR THE HUNGRY RECEIVES GRANT THROUGH ALTRIA CONTRIBUTING TOGETHER! (ACT)

The Hunters for the Hungry program is humbled to announce that they have been selected again this year to receive a grant in the amount of $15,000.00 from the Altria Companies – Altria Contributing Together (ACT) Initiative! The ACT Initiative drives business and social impact by helping Altria employees engage with diverse community partners for positive social change. It also encourages employees to take pride in taking action to help their communities thrive. This is accomplished by employees getting involved in their communities through volunteering, workplace giving and other civic action. Strengthening individual connection to the community helps them to learn to lead more inclusively, and deepens connections to shared purpose in their work. 

The Altria Contributing Together program provides transformative volunteering opportunities, cultivates civic awareness and reinforces individuals’ interest in serving their communities. www.altria.com/people-and-careers/our-people-and-communities

These precious dollars are critical and will allow the program to accept approximately 270 deer that will be donated to the program during the 2022 / 2023 deer hunting seasons. This number of deer would allow the program to process and distribute approximately 10,880 pounds, 5 tons, of high protein lean venison to feeding agencies and distribution programs that participate with Hunters for the Hungry statewide! This volume of meat will provide approximately 43,520 quarter pound servings to men, women, children, the elderly, the homeless, and veterans struggling with hunger.

THANK YOU TO THE ALTRIA FAMILY OF COMPANIES AND ALL THOSE EMPLOYEES WHO ARE A PART OF THE ALTRIA CONTRIBUTING TOGETHER INITIATIVE! WE ARE SO BLESSED THROUGH YOUR BELIEF IN OUR MISSION AND SUPPORT OF OUR FEEDING EFFORTS!

Today we were blessed with a wonderful gift from the USG Foundation and were honored to meet and fellowship with Mr. Ken Hinley, Area Account Rep for Virginia and Mr. Jeff McNees, Regional Sales Manager who presented us a check for $5,000.00!

We thank Ken for his presentation on behalf of our program among several charitable submissions where HFTH was selected for this precious gift.

These dollars will allow us to process and distribute 3,636 pounds, 1.8 tons, of quality lean protein. This amount of venison will allow the program to be able to provide 14,545 quarter-pound servings to those facing hunger throughout Virginia.

Thank you USG, Ken, and Jeff.

www.USG.com

On September 22, 2022 the Hunters for the Hungry program was blessed to receive a grant in the amount of $10,000 for their distribution efforts in Henry and Patrick Counties and the City of Martinsville. These dollars will afford us the ability to process and distribute approximately 6,660 pounds of venison for feeding programs located within the grant focus area. This amount of venison will provide approximately 26,660 quarter pound servings to men, women, children, the elderly, the homeless, and veterans struggling with hunger in the focus areas. THANK YOU SO MUCH for all those who make up the Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia and the great ladies of the Women in Philanthropy initiative.

Women In Philanthropy(WIP) is an exciting initiative of Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia’s Martinsville Regional Office that started in October 2009. This initiative recognizes and celebrates the important role that women play in making our community a wonderful place to live. The mission of Women In Philanthropy is to encourage, increase and recognize women’s participation in philanthropy and to make significant impact grants in the local community.

On Wednesday November 16, 2022 the Hunters for the Hungry program was blessed with a grant in the amount of $9,000 from the Bedford Community Health Foundation. This amount of monies will allow us to process and distribute 6,545 pounds, over 3 tons, of venison to those in need through the 6 feeding programs that participate with our program in Bedford County. This amount of venison equates to 26,182 servings that will ensure healthy diets and benefit the citizens of Bedford County!

Thank you Bedford Community Health Foundation for your precious support of our program and our community!

https://www.healthybedford.org/

As we find ourselves in the middle of the 2022/2023 deer seasons here in Virginia we pray for safety and success for all those participating in the hunting tradition! We hope you are blessed in some special way getting to spend time in God’s great outdoors! Thanks to our supporters, hunters and non-hunters alike, we at Hunters for the Hungry program have been blessed to have processed and distributed nearly 50,000 pounds of high protein venison so far this year to those struggling with hunger. This amount of meat has allowed us to provide nearly 200,000 quarter pound servings of essential lean red meat to men, women, children, the elderly, the homeless, and veterans who face food insecurity throughout the Commonwealth!

As we are in our 31st year of operation we have now processed and distributed over 30 million servings! We are so blessed to have the support and to be able to touch the lives of so many less fortunate in our communities statewide all while promoting our hunting heritage in such a positive way! So if you are blessed with harvesting an extra deer or two or more please consider donating them to Hunters for the Hungry through one of our participating processors or drop-off locations. And if you are so blessed financially would you consider a gift to help us cover the processing costs? You can do so here through our secure server or through our Facebook page at Hunters for the Hungry – Virginia. For every dollar we receive we can process and distribute 3 servings of this much-needed renewable natural resource. 

Hunters please be safe and we wish you all the very best always and thank you for your support!  

On Wednesday November 16, 2022 Hunters for the Hungry received a grant from the Community Foundation Serving the New River Valley. The grant was for $4,000 and will be utilized to conduct program operations in the grant focus area of Floyd, Giles, Montgomery, Pulaski, and Wythe Counties, including the City of Radford.

These dollars will be used to cover processing costs for over 70 deer which will produce approximately 2,900 pounds of lean protein. This total number of pounds will yield approximately 11,630 quarter-pound servings of lean high protein red meat for so many families and individuals who are struggling with hunger during this Christmas season.

The Fund for the NRV provides support for both immediate and long-term initiatives that  CONNECT individuals and organizations working toward common goals, INSPIRE  innovative solutions that address the root causes of our community’s most pressing needs, and EMPOWER nonprofit organizations to become leaders in overcoming community challenges of all kinds. The Fund for the NRV supports CFNRV grant programs and administrative services for these four initiatives:   

First Steps,  Aging in Community,  Nonprofit Leadership Institute,  NRVThrive

On November 26, 2022. the Hunters for the Hungry program was blessed to receive a grant of $5,000 from The Martinsville Area Endowment Fund as part of their Summer Cycle Grants! This precious grant is distributed through the Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia!  

This grant will afford the program the ability to process and distribute approximately 3,636 pounds of meat which will yield approximately 14,545 quarter-pound servings that will serve those struggling with hunger in the City of Martinsville and surrounding areas.  

Hunters for the Hungry receives support from the Virginia Hound Heritage Foundation!

On Thursday March 16th the Hunters for the Hungry program was blessed to receive a financial gift in the amount of $10,000.00 to assist the program with covering processing bills and to expand operations and efforts throughout 2023. 

The Virginia Hound Heritage organization has been such a huge blessing to the Hunters for the Hungry program in several special ways. This group of men, women, and families have worked to bring their communities together to serve their communities by giving those in need high protein, essential red meat. They have contributed deer, dollars, and equipment to afford the HFTH to have a huge impact in their local area and throughout the eastern portion of Virginia. Since 2018 they have donated / collected 1,109 deer for the program allowing it to process approximately 44,360 pounds of venison which has provided 177,440 quarter pound servings going to men, women, children, the elderly, the homeless, and veterans struggling with hunger. In addition to the deer donations, the VHH has now donated $27,980 and purchased 2 refrigerated collection coolers and a trailer to allow deer to be collected in a total of 5 counties.