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Funding Cut From Hunters for the Hungry Due to COVID-19

April 8, 2020 By Dick Cook and Contributed Article 0 Comments

Nashville _ Unexpected state funding shifts to fight the coronavirus pandemic has left a major funding gap for Tennessee Wildlife Federation’s Hunters for the Hungry program. 

Hunters for the Hungry provides more than half a million servings of lean, healthy protein to Tennesseans in need each year. When hunters harvest a deer, they can donate it to Hunters for the Hungry at a participating processor. The deer is then processed and the venison is delivered to hunger relief organizations to be distributed to hungry children and families. One deer provides as many as 168 servings of venison. 

With unemployment skyrocketing throughout the state, the demand on food banks and soup kitchens will be higher than ever before. And with schools shut down, kids will be without Hunters for the Hungry snack sticks—a protein-packed, ready-to-eat food given to kids at school to take home on weekends. 

Without state funding, the program cannot accommodate the increased need that is sure to come, and our neighbors will go hungry. 

You can help by making a donation at tnwf.org/hungry—$32 will provide 100 servings of lean, healthful venison to hungry Tennesseans.

During the 2019 season, 140,401 pounds of venison was donated to food banks and emergency shelters. That’s enough to provide 561,604 servings to families statewide. 

“There will always be a need Hunters for the Hungry can fill,” said Hunters for the Hungry program manager, Matt Simcox. “But this year, there will be more families needing help than ever before.”

You can ensure that the 2020 Hunters for the Hungry season starts off strong. Visit visiting tnwf.org/hungry to make a donation. 

“It is simply not an option for our neighbors to go hungry,” said Kendall McCarter, chief development officer for Tennessee Wildlife Federation. 

About Tennessee Wildlife Federation

Tennessee Wildlife Federation leads the conservation, sound management and wise use of Tennessee’s great outdoors. Since 1946, the Federation has spearheaded the development of the state’s wildlife policy, advanced landmark legislation on air and water quality and other conservation initiatives, helped restore numerous species, and introduced thousands of kids to the great outdoors. To learn more, visit tnwf.org. 

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About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.

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