Happy Birthday to Us, Happy Birthday to Us… And Free Pizza for You!

We have thoroughly enjoyed our first 3 years as owners of Pizzeria Venti. It has been an exciting venture for our family, and we are so grateful to our customers — our friends. We are thrilled to be a part of the Buckhead and [...]]]>

Happy Birthday to Us, Happy Birthday to Us… And Free Pizza for You!

We have thoroughly enjoyed our first 3 years as owners of Pizzeria Venti. It has been an exciting venture for our family, and we are so grateful to our customers — our friends. We are thrilled to be a part of the Buckhead and Brookhaven neighborhoods and we look forward to serving you for many more years!

And so, please come celebrate our success.

Where: Pizzeria Venti (2770 Lenox Road, Atlanta, GA 30324)

What: Free slices of pizza

When: Monday, December 5, 2011, 11a.m. – 9p.m.

Restrictions: One slice per customer, one topping per slice

Bonus:

Pizzeria Venti is sponsoring a holiday food drive. Please consider bringing canned or dry goods to donate to the Atlanta Community Food Bank. We will collect goods through Dec. 22.

Also, check out our new $5 specials!

Please join us for the Dine Out for Life Fundraiser — and enter [...]]]> On Wednesday, April 27, Pizzeria Venti will donate
20 percent of your purchase to Open Hand,
which provides nutritious meals to low-income Atlanta families and
people who are sick or unable to prepare their own meals

Please join us for the Dine Out for Life Fundraiser —
and enter the raffle!

So come out and join all of us on Thursday!

Mingle With a Mission: The [...]]]> We are so excited to celebrate with John & Torri of StickIt2Cancer.
They’ve raised more than $32,000 for cancer research in the last two months!
And we want to help them raise even more to battle leukemia & lymphoma

So come out and join all of us on Thursday!

Mingle With a Mission: The Victory Lap

Thursday, Oct. 21, from 6:00 to 9:00

Your $10 donation goes to StickIt2Cancer

Pizzeria Venti will provide free appetizers. (Cash bar.)

Yep, Pizzeria Venti will be the site of the first-ever Silent Tweetup this Thursday at 8:00!

Why?

Well, it all started [...]]]> At my first Tweetup, I was nervous to actually speak to people I’d only “met” via Twitter. In anticipation of this Thursday’s Tweetup, I am actually more nervous about NOT talking. But I think it will be fun!

Yep, Pizzeria Venti will be the site of the first-ever Silent Tweetup this Thursday at 8:00!

Why?

Well, it all started with Clark Harris of Atlanta. He is the man behind the @SilentClark Twitter account. This month, he has foregone the most traditional forms of communication — speaking, written notes, text messaging, sign language and even email. His only forms of communication have been social media, including his Twitter account, his blog and his Facebook page.

Clark started this silent social media journey to raise awareness for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS). And he wants to raise money for leukemia research in honor of his mother, Ruth Harris, who died on February 14, 2009, after a 10-year battle with leukemia. (He’s also curious about the applications of social media…)

When the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society — originally called the Robert Roesler de Villiers Foundation — was founded in the 1950s, most leukemia patients, especially children, died within three months.

Today, patients diagnosed with blood cancers have many reasons to hope for a good outcome:

• There are an estimated 912,938 people in the United States who are currently living with, or are in remission from, leukemia, Hodgkin lymphoma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma or myeloma.
• In the past 48 years, the relative five-year survival rate for people with leukemia nearly quadrupled
• Hodgkin lymphoma is now considered one of the most curable forms of cancer.

Source: Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

Success in treating blood cancers is due in large part to treatment advances related to the $600 million in research funding from LLS since 1954.

But the LLS isn’t done. According to the organization, “Every ten minutes, someone dies from a blood cancer. This statistic represents nearly 146 people each day, or more than six people every hour. Leukemia causes more deaths than any other cancer among children and young adults under the age of 20.”

It is important that the organization continue its mission to cure leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma.

Clark’s ultimate goal is to raise $100,000 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. You can put him closer to his goal on Thursday.

Won’t you join these great Atlanta folks on Thursday to help SILENCE CANCER?

The tweetup starts at 8:00. We’re planning to be in the private back room at Pizzeria Venti. There is a $10 cover — all of which will go to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Pizzeria Venti will provide free appetizers. To order drinks and anything else, just show us your tweet at the counter!

Dining Out for Life is a benefit that helps Open Hand provide freshly prepared, home-delivered meals, nutrition education, coaching and counseling to homebound seniors and individuals who are struggling with chronic, critical or terminal disease in 17 Georgia counties.

We’ll donate 20% [...]]]> We are excited to participate in Dining Out for Life 2010!

Dining Out for Life is a benefit that helps Open Hand provide freshly prepared, home-delivered meals, nutrition education, coaching and counseling to homebound seniors and individuals who are struggling with chronic, critical or terminal disease in 17 Georgia counties.

We’ll donate 20% of every dollar you spend on Wed., April 21. Come for lunch and dinner — and bring your friends!

From Project Open Hand:

Each and every day, the organization — with the help of over 125 volunteers — prepares and delivers more than 5,000 freshly cooked, nutritious meals to people in metro-Atlanta whose health complications have impaired their ability to prepare meals for themselves.

Our clients include homebound seniors, dependent children and persons with chronic, critical and terminal illnesses – 91% of whom live below the federal poverty level.

With only 30% of Open Hand’s annual budget coming from corporate and government sources, the organization relies on contributions from individuals in order to continue to serve the community. And Dining Out for Life — our largest annual fundraising event — plays a vital role in helping us bridge that funding gap.

Where: Pizzeria Venti, 2770 Lenox Rd., Atlanta, GA 30324

Who: You [...]]]>

For more information about the LLS Team in Training program, check out the LLS Team in Training – Georgia Chapter blog. (I loved the heartfelt posts at this blog. Definitely worth a few minutes to check out why these people are involved in the LLS TNT program.)

And meet some Atlantans who are training for the Paris Marathon and have committed to raising at least $5,500 for LLS: Gretchen, Lisa and this guy, who posts great pictures from training runs (but I can’t find his name on the site!)

You can also follow @TntGaChapter on Twitter for more information about the program & the various races.

From the Team in Training web site:

Team In Training (TNT), The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) groundbreaking charity sports training program, has reached a remarkable milestone of raising $1 billion to support blood cancer research and patient services.

For more than 21 years, TNT has grown to become an unparalleled charity endurance training program. More than 420,000 participants, from first timers to seasoned athletes, have trained with TNT and achieved their best at marathons, half marathons, triathlons, 100-mile century bike rides and hiking adventures.

Pizzeria Venti is donating 12% of sales on Monday evening, January, 25th, to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

We’ve been invited by Rhonda & Robert McIntosh to participate in their LLS fundraiser this year. As members of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Team In Training, they [...]]]>

Eat at PV to support The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

Pizzeria Venti is donating 12% of sales on Monday evening, January, 25th, to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

We’ve been invited by Rhonda & Robert McIntosh to participate in their LLS fundraiser this year. As members of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Team In Training, they are training to participate in a marathon!

We wish them great luck as the run for in honor of ALL individuals who are battling blood cancers and in memory of Rhonda’s dad, Lewis Isley. We are proud to be a part of their fundraising effort.

When: Monday, January 25th, 4p.m. – 9p.m.

Where: Pizzeria Venti

Who: You & All of your Friends!

For more information about Rhonda & Robert’s fundraiser, visit http://pages.teamintraining.org/ga/paris10/rmcintosh

or

Sunday, Dec. 6th at noon

Please bring a donation for the Atlanta Community Food Bank. We’re collecting goods through 12/23. Most needed items: Most needed items: peanut butter; canned tuna; canned [...]]]> To celebrate the holiday season, we’ve invited members of the

Georgia Tech Glee Club to sing at Pizzeria Venti!

   Please join us 

Friday, Dec. 4th at 7:30 p.m. 

or

Sunday, Dec. 6th at noon

Please bring a donation for the Atlanta Community Food Bank.
We’re collecting goods through 12/23.
Most needed items: Most needed items: peanut butter; canned tuna; canned beans; canned soups, stews and pastas; 100% fruit juice; canned fruits and vegetables; macaroni and cheese dinners; & whole grain, low-sugar cereals.

If you’ve never had the privilege of seeing the GT Glee Club,
here is a clip from the 2007 Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Christmas parade:

This holiday season, Pizzeria Venti is collecting canned & dry goods that we will deliver to the Atlanta Community Food Bank. Between the economy and the Atlanta flood, many of our neighbors are in need this year.

Statistics from www.acfb.org: