Endless Pawsabilities 2026 Results: You Helped Us Raise More Than $8,000 for SOCKS!

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The baskets have gone home with their lucky winners, the books have found new readers, and the final numbers are in. Our 5th Annual Endless Pawsabilities fundraiser brought in $8,007.37 in monetary donations and supplies for Save Our Cats and Kittens (SOCKS)!

And there’s another number I’m especially excited to share: together, we’ve now provided more than $25,000 in support over five years.

That deserves a happy dance. Possibly with a cat supervising. 🐾

Basket Winner!
Basket Winner!
Basket Winner!

A Whole Lot of Love for Local Kitties

Every September, Crystal Clear Copy brings our community together through Endless Pawsabilities to support SOCKS and the cats and kittens in their care. We collect monetary donations online throughout the month, then gather for an afternoon of raffle baskets, games, supply donations, and cat-themed fun.

This year’s online fundraiser ran September 1–30, with our live event at St. Michael’s Brewing Company in Navarre on September 26.

If you know me, you know cats are a pretty big part of my life. They’re family, coworkers, and occasionally very opinionated office supervisors. Helping the kitties at SOCKS is a cause close to my heart, and this fundraiser is one way we can turn that love into practical support.

Food, litter, cleaning supplies, and monetary donations all help support the work of caring for those little lives while they wait for families of their own.

Endless Pawsabilities 2026: Five Years of Growing

Going into this year, our first four fundraisers had raised $15,265 in monetary donations and approximately $1,850 in supplies. That’s $17,115 in combined support for SOCKS!

For our fifth year, we set our sights on:

$5,000 in monetary donations
$2,000 in supplies
Reaching $24,000 in cumulative support across all five years

You helped us fly past our monetary goal and our five-year milestone. Here’s where we landed:

Endless Pawsabilities 2026 Results	Amount
Monetary support	$7,277.34
Donated supplies, estimated value	$730.03
Total support for SOCKS	$8,007.37

We exceeded our monetary goal by $2,277.34, raising about 35% more in monetary support than last year!

While we didn’t reach our supply goal, you still helped send food, litter, cleaning products, towels, a blanket, a cat bed, and toys to SOCKS. Those everyday essentials matter, and we’re grateful for every item donated.

Our new five-year totals are $22,542.34 in monetary support and approximately $2,580.03 in supplies, bringing our combined impact to $25,122.37.

Five years. Thousands of dollars. So many people showing up for the kitties. My heart is very full.

An Afternoon of Cat-Themed Fun

We welcomed 87 attendees to this year’s live event, and the afternoon brought in $2,220.55 toward our fundraiser total.

Guests tried their luck at the lemon game, played Pin the Tail on the Cat, guessed the number of cat toys in our Purrfect Guess jar, and discovered their very own kitten names. Door prizes kept the fun going throughout the afternoon before the basket drawings wrapped things up.

The lemon game proved quite the challenge: only one person managed to win! Meanwhile, the toys from Purrfect Guess went to SOCKS afterward. A game for us, new toys for the cats. Everybody wins.

Our new Rescue Reads table was a lovely success. All 71 wrapped books and 12 pairs of cat ears sold, raising $147. Thank you to everyone who took home a surprise read or embraced their inner cat!

We also auctioned off leftover game prizes, adding another $129 to the fundraiser. Those goodies still found homes and helped the kitties along the way.

Claws & Cocktails Basket
Furocious Foodie Basket
Meowitime Adventure Basket

The Baskets You Loved Most

With 22 raffle baskets and 1,103 basket entries, there were plenty of chances to find something worth crossing your fingers for. Three baskets stood out as this year’s crowd favorites:

Meowitime Adventure — 243 entries. Four charter fishing passes from Destin Party Boat Fishing made this our most popular basket!
Fur-ocious Foodie — 156 entries. A delicious collection of gift cards from Buffalo’s Reef, Ăn Ăn, Sut-Shi, Rise & Swine, No Borders, and TOPS Navarre.
Claws & Cocktails — 107 entries. Gulf Coast Draft Services supplied a cooler bag, T-shirt, and gift cards to O’Riley’s Irish Pub, Bavaria Pensacola, and Badlands.

Between fishing adventures, good food, and a night out, you certainly know how to have a good time while supporting a good cause.

A Round of Ap-paws for Our Sponsors

31 sponsors helped make this year’s fundraiser possible through funding, baskets, gift cards, and other prizes. Thank you for giving our community so many reasons to get involved!

A special thank-you goes to St. Michael’s Brewing Company for hosting us, and to our five Pawtron Saint monetary sponsors: Melinda Vazquez, Baking Barefoot, The Color Barbee, AJ’s on the Bayou, and Lee Nissan Fort Walton Beach.

Their funding covered the costs of running the fundraiser, and the remaining amount went to SOCKS, too. That contribution is included in our final monetary total.

We’re also sending a big thank-you to Ăn Ăn – Eat Eat, Destin Party Boat Fishing, Sut-Shi, Buffalo’s Reef, Harley Davidson, Rise & Swine, TOPS Navarre, The Book and Blade Emporium, No Borders, Michelle Ferreira with TouchStone Crystal, Emerald Coast Science Center, Lavender Phoenix Boutique, Sugar & Co, The Passionistas, Ginny’s Place, Downtown Music Hall, Barber Queen, Woodfoot, Kettle King, The Book Rack, Gulf Coast Draft Services, Monica Philpot, Barbara Taylor, and Matt and Martha HeWatt, along with our anonymous sponsor.

Please give these generous people and businesses some love. Their support helped turn this fundraiser into a community celebration.

To Everyone Who Helped: Thank You

Whether you donated online, brought supplies, entered the raffles, bought a book, shared a post, invited a friend, or joined us at the brewery, you helped make this happen.

To everyone who donated: thank you for trusting us with your generosity and helping us give more to SOCKS. Every contribution helped build that $8,007.37 total.

And to our volunteer crew—Tracy, Kassandra, Hunter, Malachi, Monica, Justin, and Ezra—thank you for the creativity, preparation, outreach, ticket help, games, setup, and cleanup. There’s a lot happening behind those pretty baskets, and I’m so grateful for the people who help bring it all together.

Thank you, too, to everyone who helped spread the word through local coverage, radio appearances, community listings, and personal shares. You helped more people hear about the fundraiser and the cats we were supporting.

Stay in the Loop for More Pawsabilities

Five years in, I’m still amazed by what a community of cat lovers can accomplish together. Thank you for making this year so special—and for helping us pass $25,000 in support for SOCKS!

Want to be part of what comes next?

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