Pizza Pal Foundation, Every Slice Earned. Every Child Celebrated.

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🍕 Challenge of the Month · September

The Attendance Challenge

September kicks off our very first monthly challenge at Lewis & Clark: show up, together. Every school day a class shows strong attendance, they earn points toward the month. At the end of September, the top class in each grade wins a pizza celebration, at zero cost to the school.

And it is built kind: points belong to the whole class, growth counts, and a sick day never sinks a class. It is about building the show-up habit together, not perfection.

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Why We Exist

It started with one dad, one classroom, and a promise: hit your goal, and we celebrate.

When a class of kids reached the goal their teacher set, they earned a pizza party, and the room lit up like it was the championship. That's when it clicked. Teachers set goals every day but rarely have a way to celebrate the classes that reach them. Families and neighbors want to help but have no vehicle. Pizza Pal Foundation is that vehicle: a bridge between a community that cares and classrooms full of kids who are trying.

“Recognition isn't extra. It's fuel.”

Jay "Pizza Dad" Jackson, Founder & President

This is the town that claps. Neighbors, families, businesses. One community, showing its kids that trying matters. Come be part of it.

How It Works

Three steps. Zero cost to schools.

No work for teachers. No cost to schools. No catch. And the rotation is built fair: when a class wins, their points reset, so every class gets its turn across the year.

Teachers set the goal

Reading minutes, attendance, kindness, class averages. Goals tied to what teachers already care about, chosen by the people who know their students best.

The class earns it

The whole class works toward the goal together. When they reach it, every child shares the win, no one is left out of the celebration.

The community funds it

Local sponsors, families, and neighbors cover every dollar. Allergy-friendly options for every child, background-checked volunteers, and a party the kids earned.

Zero cost to the school, always

More Than Pizza

A growing lineup that celebrates every kind of effort

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Pizza Pal Reading Challenge

Reading goals that turn pages into pride and celebration.

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Attendance Champions

Showing up, and improving, gets noticed and rewarded.

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Fitness Challenge

Active goals that make healthy habits fun to chase.

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Field Day

A community-sponsored day of games, teamwork, and outdoor fun.

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Good Citizenship

Celebrating kindness and character, not just grades.

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Classroom Celebrations

The original: hit the class goal, earn the celebration.

What Your Support Makes Possible

Small gifts. Big moments.

One classroom celebration. A whole class of kids learns that effort gets seen.

A month of celebrations for the whole school, one classroom per grade, K–5.

A full school year of celebrations, every month, all year long.

For the detail-minded: registered 501(c)(3) public charity · Virginia nonstock corporation · Caroline County, VA · pilot school: Lewis & Clark Elementary. Verify us anytime.

Supporter Recognition

The Magnet Wall

When we launch, every supporter earns a Pizza Pal car magnet. And as your support grows across the school year, a brand new magnet arrives in the mail. Collect the climb.

Legendary

Legendary Patron

The Big Cheese

♛ Pizza Pal Legend ♛

INVITATION ONLY. Some legends find us. We never say how.

Founding Pal

★ ★ ★ ★

The founding-year inner circle. Red and gold, and never made again.

School Champion

★ ★ ★

A month of celebrations for a whole school carries your name.

Classroom Sponsor

★ ★

You celebrated a full classroom of kids. They will remember it.

Slice Supporter

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Where everyone starts. The pickup line will know you clap for kids.

Levels are our thank-you, never a price tag. No magnet ever shows an amount. Full details announced at launch. Join the launch list to be first in line.

The Long-Term Dream

A community field for Caroline County

Our area's schools don't have stadium-grade athletic facilities. Someday, we aim to change that: a 400-meter track wrapped around a turf football and soccer field, a real home for Field Day, youth sports, and community events, built in phases with partners who share the vision.

The classroom celebrations happening today are step one. They build the trust, the community, and the track record that make a dream this big possible.

A phased, multi-year vision, developed with community partners.

Concept rendering of a future community field: a running track around a turf football and soccer field, with bleachers, a scoreboard, a long-jump pit and a throwing area

Concept rendering of our long-term dream. This field is not yet built, it is the future we are working toward.

Meet the Board

The people behind the pizza

Jay Jackson, Founder and President of Pizza Pal Foundation

Jay “Pizza Dad” Jackson

Founder & President

The dad whose classroom pizza promise started it all. Jay leads the Foundation's mission, school partnerships, and community relationships across Caroline County.

Jarvis Jackson, Treasurer of Pizza Pal Foundation

Jarvis Jackson, MBA, CGFM, CDFM

Director & Treasurer

A Certified Government Financial Manager and Certified Defense Financial Manager, Jarvis safeguards the Foundation's finances, every dollar tracked, every donor receipt honored, every report filed on time.

Cynthia Brown

Director

A veteran elementary educator and school leader, Cynthia is our education voice, keeping every program grounded in what actually works for kids and classrooms.

Education Advisory Council

The educators shaping our programs

Sandra “Mrs. G” Gilliam

Founding Member · Education Advisory Council

A school leader who knows our students by name, Mrs. G helps design the programs themselves, celebration criteria, the Reading Challenge, Field Day, so every one of them truly works for kids.

Partner With Us

Built with the community, for the community

Pizza Pal grows through partners: local businesses that love this town's kids, schools that want celebrations in their classrooms, and community groups that show up. If that sounds like you, start the conversation. Your message comes straight to our founder.

🏪 Businesses

Community goodwill, a visible way to back local kids, and a story your customers will love.

🏫 Schools

Bring the celebrations to your classrooms. No work for teachers, zero cost to schools, no catch.

🤝 Community

Churches, clubs, teams, and neighbors. If you clap for kids, there is a seat for you.