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Dear Friend,
Get out your 2025 calendars and save the dates for our upcoming events! Whether you're looking for a family-friendly daytime walk/run with your pet or a formal black-tie with a scintillating auction, we've got you covered.
From tickets to sponsorships to auction bids, every dollar raised at PAWS events helps improve the lives of homeless and at-risk pets. Plus, many of these events are dog-friendly, so your best friend can tag along, too!
Join a community of animal lovers to build No Kill communities in 2025. We can’t wait to see you in the coming year.
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Animal Magnetism
Friday, April 4, 2025 | 7–11 p.m.
Morgan Manufacturing
Don't miss the first event of the season to help homeless pets. Hosted by the PAWS Chicago Professional Board at a chic West Loop venue, Animal Magnetism welcomes more than 650 of Chicago’s professionals, animal lovers, and their canine companions for a night of food and drinks, dancing, entertainment, a fabulous silent auction, and more!
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PAWS Chicago Peter Fasseas Golf Open
Monday, June 9, 2025 | 10 a.m.–7 p.m.
Westmoreland Country Club
Play the game you love while helping animals. The PAWS Chicago Peter Fasseas Golf Open welcomes golfers to enjoy a day on the links, including lunch on the patio, cocktail and food tasting stations on the course, raffle prizes, contests, a Golf Ball Shooter, and photo stations with adoptable animals. The day concludes with a dinner reception featuring silent and live auctions and networking with corporate and individual supporters.
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Beach Party
Thursday, July 17, 2025 | 6–11 p.m.
Offshore Rooftop at Navy Pier
Get ready for an evening of good vibes and saving lives. This dog-friendly, luau-themed event is a summer celebration for 500 guests and their pets on the nation’s largest rooftop venue. Come sip cocktails and soak up the sun while taking in 270-degree water views of Lake Michigan. Then, as the sun sets, enjoy dancing, an open bar, dinner, live and silent auctions, raffles, and so much more!
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5K Run/Walk For Their Lives
September 2025 | 7:30–11 a.m.
Montrose Harbor
Help move the No Kill mission forward! The PAWS 5K is Chicago’s LARGEST dog-friendly charity event, and it’s a day of fun, dog agility courses, raffles, entertainment, treats, a dog spa and pools, and more. Sponsors enjoy direct access to our participants as well as complimentary registrations for their employees and/or guests. In addition, our Corporate Challenge offers an opportunity for employee bonding and networking with other pet-minded professionals.
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Fur Ball
Friday, November 14, 2025 | 6 p.m.–12 a.m.
Drake Hotel
Bask in an evening of black ties and puppy dog eyes. At the Fur Ball, guests and their pooches wear their finest and celebrate lifesaving with Chicago’s like-minded homeless pet philanthropists while surrounded by the Drake Hotel’s festive holiday decorations. The evening features a red carpet, an elegant dinner, a dog buffet, silent and live auctions, dancing, a photo booth, raffles, and more.
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Thank you for all you do to help homeless pets.
Sincerely,
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