Paws Unleash Potential

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Paws Unleash Potential We connect kids and dogs to unleash their potential! The human and canine bond lowers stress and anxiety levels.

Paws Unleash Potential provides children with positive relationships with dogs that improves health and well-being by increasing self-esteem, confidence, and empathy. The Paws Unleash Potential programs, PUP Readers and Virtual PUP, allow children to improve their reading skills and fosters a love of reading. Since our founding in 2006, the Paws to R.E.A.D.® program -now PUP READers- has provided in excess of 6,000 hours of tutoring to over 4,200 children in the greater Richmond area.

This beautifully crafted quilt would be a wonderful addition to any pup lovers decoration. This quilt is 52” by 55”. To ...
10/14/2026

This beautifully crafted quilt would be a wonderful addition to any pup lovers decoration. This quilt is 52” by 55”. To enter the raffle, tickets can be purchased by visiting our website at pawsunleashpotential.org. Please add the word “quilt” when purchasing your raffle ticket online. 1 ticket is $5 and 5 tickets are $20.

The drawing will be held on October 31, 2026 at 11:30am at the Dorey Park Farmers Market READ tent next to the Henrico County Mobile Library.
You do not need to be present to win.
Proceeds support the PUP READers program to recruit and train new Reading Education Assistance Dog (READ) therapy dog teams. New teams will allow us to meet the needs of a long waiting list of schools and libraries who are requesting our help for their students.

The winner will be announced on our page.
Arrangements will be made for local pickup

📣 This beautifully crafted quilt would be a wonderful addition to any pup lovers decoration. This quilt is 52” by 55”. T...
10/10/2026

📣 This beautifully crafted quilt would be a wonderful addition to any pup lovers decoration. This quilt is 52” by 55”. To enter the raffle, tickets can be purchased by visiting our website at pawsunleashpotential.org. Please add the word “quilt” when purchasing your raffle ticket online. 1 ticket is $5 and 5 tickets are $20.

The drawing will be held on October 31, 2026 at 11:30am at the Dorey Park Farmers Market READ tent next to the Henrico County Mobile Library.
You do not need to be present to win.
Proceeds support the PUP READers program to recruit and train new Reading Education Assistance Dog (READ) therapy dog teams. New teams will allow us to meet the needs of a long waiting list of schools and libraries who are requesting our help for their students.

The winner will be announced on our page.
Arrangements will be made for local pickup

You can see it in person tomorrow at Dorey Park Farmers Market! This beautifully craft quilt would be a wonderful additi...
09/18/2026

You can see it in person tomorrow at Dorey Park Farmers Market! This beautifully craft quilt would be a wonderful addition to any pup lovers decoration. This quilt is 52” by 55”. To enter the raffle, tickets can be purchased by visiting our website at pawsunleashpotential.org. Please add the word “quilt” when purchasing your raffle ticket online. 1 ticket is $5 and 5 tickets are $20.

The drawing will be held on October 31, 2026 at 11:30am at the Dorey Park Farmers Market READ tent next to the Henrico County Mobile Library.
You do not need to be present to win.
Proceeds support the PUP READers program to recruit and train new Reading Education Assistance Dog (READ) therapy dog teams. New teams will allow us to meet the needs of a long waiting list of schools and libraries who are requesting our help for their students.

The winner will be announced on our page.
Arrangements will be made for local pickup

We’re happy to be a partner with Henrico County Public Library. You can find our reading dogs at libraries so your child...
09/08/2026

We’re happy to be a partner with Henrico County Public Library. You can find our reading dogs at libraries so your child can practice reading aloud with confidence to our furry friends.

Fundraiser alert 🚨 🔔This beautifully crafted quilt would be a wonderful addition to any pup lovers decoration. This quil...
09/08/2026

Fundraiser alert 🚨 🔔
This beautifully crafted quilt would be a wonderful addition to any pup lovers decoration. This quilt is 52” by 55”. To enter the raffle, tickets can be purchased by visiting our website at pawsunleashpotential.org. Please add the word “quilt” when purchasing your raffle ticket online. 1 ticket is $5 and 5 tickets are $20.

The drawing will be held on October 31, 2026 at 11:30am at the Dorey Park Farmers Market READ tent next to the Henrico County Mobile Library.
You do not need to be present to win.
Proceeds support the PUP READers program to recruit and train new Reading Education Assistance Dog (READ) therapy dog teams. New teams will allow us to meet the needs of a long waiting list of schools and libraries who are requesting our help for their students.

The winner will be announced on our page.
Arrangements will be made for local pickup

09/03/2026

Congrats Kelley for winning this beautiful handmade paw print mosaic 🐾 Thank you all for participating in our raffle! We appreciate all of your support

Help us reach our fundraising goal!This beautiful paw print mosaic would be a wonderful addition to any pup lovers decor...
08/19/2026

Help us reach our fundraising goal!
This beautiful paw print mosaic would be a wonderful addition to any pup lovers decoration. This mosaic is 14” x 14” and has a hanger on the back. To enter the raffle, tickets can be purchased by visiting our website at pawsunleashpotential.org. Please add the word “mosaic” when purchasing your raffle ticket online. 1 ticket is $5 and 5 tickets are $20. The drawing will occur September 1, so please enter by August 31.

Paws Unleash Potential (PUP) is a small all-volunteer organization that works to provide specially trained certified therapy dog teams to schools and libraries (and Dorey Park Farmers Market!) to improve literacy and confidence in young readers.  Struggling readers will read to our therapy dogs when they will not read to teachers or parents or other adults. The proceeds from this raffle will allow us to purchase books for the elementary school students who read to our PUPs during the school year.

Our dedicated volunteers completed over 240 visits amounting to more than 225 hours of reading time with over 970 student interactions.

Fundraiser reminder: this beautiful paw print mosaic would be a wonderful addition to any pup lovers decoration. This mo...
08/03/2026

Fundraiser reminder: this beautiful paw print mosaic would be a wonderful addition to any pup lovers decoration. This mosaic is 14” x 14” and has a hanger on the back. To enter the raffle, tickets can be purchased by visiting our website at pawsunleashpotential.org. Please add the word “mosaic” when purchasing your raffle ticket online. 1 ticket is $5 and 5 tickets are $20. The drawing will occur September 1, so please enter by August 31.

Paws Unleash Potential (PUP) is a small all-volunteer organization that works to provide specially trained certified therapy dog teams to schools and libraries (and Dorey Park Farmers Market!) to improve literacy and confidence in young readers.  Struggling readers will read to our therapy dogs when they will not read to teachers or parents or other adults. The proceeds from this raffle will allow us to purchase books for the elementary school students who read to our PUPs during the school year.

Our dedicated volunteers completed over 240 visits amounting to more than 225 hours of reading time with over 970 student interactions.

Fundraiser reminder: this beautiful paw print mosaic would be a wonderful addition to any pup lovers decoration. Our fun...
07/28/2026

Fundraiser reminder: this beautiful paw print mosaic would be a wonderful addition to any pup lovers decoration. Our fundraising goal is $500! This mosaic is 14” x 14” and has a hanger on the back. To enter the raffle, tickets can be purchased by visiting our website at pawsunleashpotential.org. Please add the word “mosaic” when purchasing your raffle ticket online. 1 ticket is $5 and 5 tickets are $20. The drawing will occur September 1, so please enter by August 31.

Paws Unleash Potential (PUP) is a small all-volunteer organization that works to provide specially trained certified therapy dog teams to schools and libraries (and Dorey Park Farmers Market!) to improve literacy and confidence in young readers.  Struggling readers will read to our therapy dogs when they will not read to teachers or parents or other adults. The proceeds from this raffle will allow us to purchase books for the elementary school students who read to our PUPs during the school year.

Our dedicated volunteers completed over 240 visits amounting to more than 225 hours of reading time with over 970 student interactions.

Come by to see us at the Dorey Farmers Market, Inc. until 12pm. You can read to Zeke and see this beautiful paw print th...
07/11/2026

Come by to see us at the Dorey Farmers Market, Inc. until 12pm. You can read to Zeke and see this beautiful paw print that’s up for raffle

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2999 Darbytown Road
Henrico, VA
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