Every dollar raised from the 9th Annual PAWS Chicago Beach Party, All Paws On Deck! enables PAWS Chicago to continue their life-saving work. PAWS Chicago Beach Party is a fun, summer celebration that will include cool summer cocktails and an open bar, a beach-themed dinner buffet, a doggie buffet, dancing and a one-of-a-kind silent auction! Download the Beach Party Sponsorship Packet.

Co-Chairs: Nancy & Ron Officer and Dawn & Jim O’Neal
Committee: Deborah Chapman, Suzie Glickman, Deb Gold, Linda Leahy , Karen Maisa, Christine Mallul, Amy Mick, Lisa Snider, Bonnie Spurlock, Virginia Stafman, Lynne Styles, Judy Tullman, Amy Turk, Jaclene Tetzlaff, Paula Fasseas, Nancy Sterling, Kim Gleeson, Cheri Lawrence

PAWS Chicago (Pets Are Worth Saving) is the city’s largest No Kill humane organization. Through a solution-based approach to animal welfare, PAWS Chicago has placed Chicago on track to become a No Kill city where pets are no longer destroyed because they are homeless.

Since PAWS Chicago’s founding in 1997, the number of homeless dogs and cats killed annually has dropped more than 50 percent.

In the fall of 2007, PAWS Chicago celebrated a milestone by opening the Midwest’s first No Kill, cageless, state-of-the-art adoption center for dogs and cats in Lincoln park. PAWS Chicago found homes for more than 4,000 homeless pets in 2010, and is on track to increase this number to 4,400 in 2011. With higher adoption numbers, the cost of medical treatments and caring for homeless pets has greatly increased. All proceeds raised from Beach Party go directly to the animals.