Our Story
The spark was lit in New York but it burns nationwide.
Slice Out Hunger has raised over $1.3 million to fund hunger relief efforts across the US. It all started in New York City, where a group of pizza lovers came together to run a pizza party featuring pizza donated by the city’s top pizzerias. They donated all the money raised to a different hunger relief organization each year. Today, Slice Out Hunger’s annual Dollar Pizza Party has become an annual tradition, but the organization has grown far beyond NYC.
With a list of over 700 pizza partners across the US, Slice Out Hunger is able to react to need by producing campaigns and events that help those in need through the power of pizza. Becoming a pizza partner is simple. Pizzeria operators, mobile pizza caterers, home pizza enthusiasts, and pizza lovers need only pledge to support their local communities (see our Partner page for more details).
The pizza community is all about action.
Our organization thrives on fast mobilization and that has allowed us to spring into action when help is needed. We launched Slice Out Special to raise money for No Kid Hungry in 2018, Toppings For Texas to fund the Houston food bank after Hurricane Harvey in 2017 and again in late winter of 2021 during the severe winter storms, and Pizza Across America to assist soup kitchens and shelters in honor of National Pizza Day (Feb 9). In March 2020, we teamed up with Slice and Pizza to the Polls to create Pizza Vs Pandemic, our campaign to send pizza to frontline healthcare workers and first responders across the country. The campaign raised over $250k in its first two weeks alone.
Let's face it, America is obsessed with pizza. With over 77k pizzerias grossing upwards of $47 billion, our pizza enthusiasm is strong. Slice Out Hunger founder Scott Wiener tapped into pizza fever when he launched Scott's Pizza Tours in 2008. Over 100,000 tourists, locals, pizza lovers, and pizza professionals have since attended excursions to significant New York pizzerias with the company. Food tours are fun ways to experience a city, but treating food as entertainment is a luxury that too many people cannot afford. Slice Out Hunger became a way to harness the momentum of our collective pizza obsession to effectively support those who have trouble meeting their own basic food needs.
Slice Out Hunger believes that everybody is important; everybody deserves basic human services; and everybody loves pizza.
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