A few months ago MCB covered the event launch of this alliance featuring the 5 new Great Lakes Pizzas and we are happy to pass along that Buddy's Pizza have raised $6,000 for the Alliance for the Great Lakes
If you haven't tried the new pizzas yet you are missing out
They each have a distinctive flavor and we love them all.
Big thanks to Buddy's Pizza who have been supporters of all things Michigan including the old MOTORCITYBLOG ...look for some great prizes from Buddy's Pizza at our upcoming Behind the Eight Ball Fundraiser for Michigan Humane Society on Friday Feb 8th at Jazz Cafe Music Hall Detroit
If you haven't tried the new pizzas yet you are missing out
They each have a distinctive flavor and we love them all.
Big thanks to Buddy's Pizza who have been supporters of all things Michigan including the old MOTORCITYBLOG ...look for some great prizes from Buddy's Pizza at our upcoming Behind the Eight Ball Fundraiser for Michigan Humane Society on Friday Feb 8th at Jazz Cafe Music Hall Detroit
Buddy’s Pizza supports the Great
Lakes!
$6,000 donation to
benefit Alliance for the Great Lakes, Belle Isle
A business made
famous in the Great Lakes State, Detroit original Buddy’s Pizza is ready to
donate $6,000 to the independent citizen’s organization Alliance for the Great
Lakes.
In June 2012, Buddy’s Pizza joined forces with the Alliance
for the Great Lakes, a nonprofit devoted to protecting and restoring the Great
Lakes through education, policy and citizen involvement, to unveil the Made in
Michigan Great Lakes Pizza Collection which featured five pies inspired by the
Great Lakes.
In addition to a variety of campaigns and initiatives set
forth by the Alliance, the donation from Buddy’s will be used to benefit an
innovative restoration and education project targeted at returning 72 linear
feet of shoreline and coastal wetland on Belle Isle and a litter reduction
campaign.
“Michigan is truly a beautiful state, and we owe so much of
that beauty to our amazing lakes and bodies of water,” said Robert Jacobs,
president of Buddy’s Pizza. “We’re so pleased to present the Alliance for the
Great Lakes with a donation that will not only be used to better the Great
Lakes, but Belle Isle, which is an iconic Detroit landmark.”
The pizza collection was created to pay tribute to the family
restaurant’s Michigan heritage and dedication to everything Pure Michigan. For
each pizza from the collection sold, Buddy’s president, Robert Jacobs, announced
he would donate $1 to the Alliance in support of the nonprofit’s efforts in
maintaining a healthy Pure Michigan environment.
Thanks to an overwhelming response from metro Detroit
patrons, the collection fostered a substantial donation to benefit the
nonprofit.
"In naming a pizza collection after the Great Lakes, Buddy's
Pizza gave every customer a chance to protect this great regional resource --
something we at the Alliance for the Great Lakes do every day," says Joel
Brammeier, Alliance president and CEO. "But we don't do it alone. When an
established business like Buddy's makes the Great Lakes its priority, everyone
who orders up shares in 'a piece of the pie.’"
Additionally, due to metro Detroiters overwhelming support,
all five Made in Michigan Great Lakes pizzas will remain on the Buddy’s Pizza
menu at all nine locations.
The pizzas are:
- Lake Huron – Spinach
and artichoke blend, roasted tomatoes, fresh spinach
- Lake Ontario – Fresh
cilantro, Canadian bacon, grilled pineapple, Buddy’s BBQ sauce
- Lake Michigan –
Ground beef, carmelized onions, blue cheese, tomato basil sauce
- Lake Erie – Red
onion, roasted red peppers, salami, pepperoncini, tomato basil sauce
- Lake Superior –
Fresh basil, pine nuts, pepperoni, tomato basil sauce, Buddy’s spice
blend.
About Alliance for the Great Lakes
Formed in 1970, the Alliance for the Great Lakes is the
oldest independent Great Lakes organization in North America. Our mission is to:
conserve and restore the world's largest freshwater resource using policy,
education and local efforts, ensuring a healthy Great Lakes and clean water for
generations of people and wildlife. More about the Alliance for the Great Lakes
is online at www.greatlakes.org.
About Buddy’s Pizza
Sixty-seven years since the introduction of the first square
pizza, Buddy’s Pizza thrives in metro Detroit with 9 locations that serve the
loyal clientele who have consistently made the brand a favorite nationwide.
Buddy’s has been recognized as one of the Nation’s Five Best Pizza Places by the
Food Network; dubbed the Hottest Independent Pizzeria in the Nation by Pizza
Today; One of the best 25 Pizzas in America by GQ and One of the 25
best pizza spots in the US by Food & Wine Magazine.
