Nelly’s Italian Café in Spring Hill, Tennessee, the Grand Prize Winner of the 2022 Hillshire Farm® brand Great Pizza Give Back, supports a great variety of causes—many that benefit humans, and one that helps hounds, too. Teaming up with a local animal shelter, the café places flyers of adoptable dogs on every pizza box. Within weeks of starting the program, one very lucky dog was adopted by a very caring customer. This #PizzaForPups program also awards a $50 donation to the shelter when anyone brings in the flyer and adopts a dog—there were 20 adoptions within the first couple of weeks.

For Much Ado About Pizza, a Pleasanton, California-based pizzeria and a 2023 Hillshire Farm® brand Great Pizza Give Back Winner, giving back means delivering on a commitment to combating hunger. The pizzeria is a member of an organization called Slice Out Hunger, a non-profit that coordinates with independent pizzerias to donate pizzas and raise funds for hunger relief organizations nationwide. Much Ado About Pizza also works to fight hunger locally by donating money from their various pizza pop-up events—as well as donating pizzas to the un-housed in local creek beds.

Among their many acts of giving, Dayton, Ohio’s Dayton’s Original Pizza Factory—the 2023 Hillshire Farm® brand Great Pizza Give Back Grand Prize Winner—had an idea to make a difference for those who might not otherwise be able to further their education. Working with a local community college, they’re establishing a culinary “DOUGH-larship” program. In addition to the $1,000 they’ve committed to the program, the pizzeria plans to donate an additional $1 to the scholarship from every pizza sold during a given month—giving customers the opportunity to match the $1 donation.