2025 Pathways Home
October 16, 2025 @ 5:00PM — 7:00PM Central Time (US & Canada) Add to Calendar
The Clubhouse: 2700 W 183rd St Homewood, IL 60430 Get Directions
Save the date for the October 16, 2025 South Suburban PADS (Public Action to Deliver Shelter, or SSPADS) Pathways Home Event. We hope you will join us to celebrate and support our mission to prevent and end homelessness across the South Suburbs.
EVENT DETAILS
- Date: October 16, 2025
- Time: 5:00pm - 7:00pm
- Location: The Clubhouse at Dolphin Lake located at 2700 W 183rd Street, Homewood, IL 60430
- Event Website: https://sspads.networkforgood.com/events/85075-202...
- Event Type: Network and socialize with over 100 supporters and local organizations
- Ticket Price: $75 per person*
- Dress Code: Business Casual or Business attire
- Food & Drink: Please enjoy beer, wine, and a variety of gourmet appetizers
*Note: Each ticket provides an estimated $75 worth of event benefits. As a result, the IRS allows a tax deduction for each ticket that you purchase and utilize. If you sponsor the event, your ticket price will be $0 and you may receive more than one ticket. See sponsorship levels below.
SPEAKERS
Douglas Kenshol, Executive Director
Presenting Sponsor: TBD
Former Client Speaker: TBD
SSPADS Board President: Gyata Kimmons
Sponsorship Levels
South Suburban PADS extends its deepest gratitude to supporters like you who believe in our mission to prevent and end homelessness. We are so grateful for your support because we cannot do this work alone. Please consider increasing yourdonation generously this year at our 2025 Pathways Home Event.
Presenting Level $15,000+
- Your $15,000+ contribution could provide 240 nights of shelter or rental/utility assistance to 25 families to prevent homelessness.
- Sponsorship includes name and/or logo printed in the event program, SSPADS website, event PowerPoint in the lobby of the event, and on the event page; branded items to be included in event gift bags; special mention on social media and press releases; opportunity to provide remarks at the event; and 8 tickets to the event and a reserved sponsor table.
Sustaining Sponsor $10,000+
- Your $10,000 contribution could provide 160 nights of shelter or rental/utility assistance to 20 families to prevent homelessness.
- Sponsorship includes name and/or logo printed in the event program, SSPADS website, event PowerPoint in the lobby of the event, and on the event page; branded items to be included in event gift bags; special mention on social media and press releases; and 8 tickets to the event.
Passion Level $5,000+
- Your $5,000 contribution could provide 80 nights of shelter or rental/utility assistance to 10 families to prevent homelessness.
- Sponsorship includes name and/or logo printed in the event program, SSPADS website, event PowerPoint in the lobby of the event, and on the event page; branded items to be included in event gift bags; special mention on social media and press releases; and 6 tickets to the event.
Vision Level $2,500+
- Your contribution of $2,500, could provide 40 nights of shelter or rental or utility assistance to 5 families to prevent homelessness.
- Sponsorship includes name and/or logo printed in the event program and event page; branded items to be included in event gift bags; special mention on social media and press releases; and 4 tickets to the event.
Mission Level 1,000+
- Your contribution of $1,000, could provide 200 shelter meals, one week of shelter for two people (or two weeks of shelter for one person), or emergency rent/utility support to prevent two families from becoming homeless.
- Sponsorship includes your name printed in the program and on our event page; special mention on social media; and two tickets to the event.
Support Level $500+
- Your contribution of $500, could provide 100 shelter meals, provide one week of shelter for one person, or emergency rent/utility support to prevent one family from becoming homeless.
- Sponsorship includes your name printed in the program and one ticket to the event.
HOW TO DONATE
To sponsor this event, please reach out to Jestine Ware, Director of Development and Communications at jware@sspads.org and Douglas Kenshol, Executive Director, at dkenshol@sspads.org.
WHO WE ARE
South Suburban PADS (Public Action to Deliver Shelter, or SSPADS) is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization with a mission to prevent and end homelessness in the south suburbs of Chicago. SSPADS was founded 34 years ago by dedicated community members who saw a need and decided to assist their unhoused neighbors across the Southland. Dozens of churches hosted SSPADS shelter on a rotating basis and nightly moved “pads” on the floor each day. Since 1990, SSPADS has provided over 700,000 nights of emergency shelter and over 2 million meals to enable over 20,000 people to overcome homelessness. In addition, SSPADS provides pathways home by helping over 400 people to preserve or access affordable housing homes every year. SSPADS owns several apartment buildings and places clients in scattered-site housing. In 2011, SSPADS developed its own 77-unit PSH building in Country Club Hills called the Wellness Center, which includes a full-service teaching kitchen, community rooms, computer lab, classroom, playground, bus service, and clinic space. Our work helps those who are unhoused obtain affordable, permanent rental housing and work to achieve better health and economic security.
Prior to the pandemic, SSPADS could only provide 13,000 nights of shelter and 39,000 meals per year. We have increased our budget significantly with the help of increased philanthropy and federal COVID-19 funding and implemented a non-congregate, hotel-based shelter model. As a result, our emergency shelter impact has grown over 169% since 2019. SSPADS is the proud recipient of the 2018 Bank of America Neighborhood Builders Award, the 2019 National Good Neighbor Award, and a 2024 Lever for Change Award from MacKenzie Scott’s foundation Yield Giving.
In addition, South Suburban PADS co-founded (with leaders from SSPADS, Catholic Charities, Hesed House, Housing Forward, Connections for the Homeless, and other organizations) and currently leads the Illinois Shelter Alliance (ISA), representing over 60 homeless service agencies from every corner of the state. ISA is advocating for increased government funding to address the current shortage of over 4,500 emergency shelter beds throughout the state (Illinois Interagency Task Force on Homelessness, 2022). ISA successfully advocated for $5 million FY23 and $40 million FY24 increases in the state budget for the IDHS Emergency and Transitional Housing Program.