2024 GGBR Calendar Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the GGBR Calendar Contest is and who runs it

The 2024 GGBR Calendar Contest is a photo fundraiser staged by Golden Gate Basset Rescue, a basset hound rescue organization whose postal address sits in Petaluma, California. The ballot page titles itself a fundraiser for the rescue, and the entire programme exists to produce the rescue's printed calendar: supporters vote for photographed bassets, and vote totals decide which dogs appear in the finished product.

The voting software behind the ballot is GoGo Photo Contest, hosted at gogophotocontest.com/ggbr2024. That platform specializes in photo-fundraiser ballots for rescues and community groups, which fits this programme exactly: entries are individual dogs, votes come from the public, and the fundraiser's revenue purpose is stated openly on the page itself.

The prize structure is the clearest statement of what the contest is for. The basset or bassets with the most votes receive the prized cover photo, the center bio, and a place in all of the rescue's Calendar 2024 promotions. Twelve runner ups each get a month of the calendar to themselves. In other words, the ballot is not an abstract award; it directly determines the faces of the rescue's next year of fundraising material.

Facts at a glance

The dated facts: which editions ran and what is not published

The GGBR calendar carries confirmed edition years of 2024 and 2026. The 2024 ballot, the one this page documents, is explicitly marked as ended, with its timing referenced to Pacific Time. A 2026 presence on the same GoGo Photo Contest address shows the rescue brought the programme back rather than letting it end as a single event, which is what qualifies the calendar as an annual-style fundraiser rather than a one-off.

Beyond those two years, the published trail is thin. The rescue has never printed when the voting window opens or closes on the ballot, so nobody reading the page cold can tell when nominations or voting begin in a given cycle. The ballot also publishes no category list, no cap on votes per supporter, and no eligibility rules for entries; anyone planning around those details should confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

For this fundraiser the missing details matter less than they would for a large reader-choice award, because the structure here is simple. There is one prize ladder, one pool of basset entries, and one vote count. What a supporter actually needs to know, which dog to back and where to press the vote button, is all on the live page. What the rescue keeps off the page is the scheduling detail, and that is best picked up by watching the ballot itself as a cycle approaches.

How a supporter votes for a basset today

The GGBR ballot runs as a public photo vote with nothing gated behind it. A supporter opens gogophotocontest.com/ggbr2024, lands on the Golden Gate Basset Rescue fundraiser page, and uses the View Entries link to browse the photographed bassets. Each entry carries its own vote control, and pressing it registers support for that dog in the calendar race.

The page header includes a Sign In control, which is standard on GoGo Photo Contest ballots, but the GGBR page leaves the account question unstated: nothing on it says a sign-in is mandatory before a vote counts. A supporter simply follows what the live ballot asks. If the vote button triggers a sign-in prompt, creating the account is part of the process; if the vote registers directly, no account is needed.

The rescue's own copy is the most telling instruction on the page. It reads Vote! Vote!! Vote!!!!, an explicit encouragement to return and vote again, and it notes that every vote received counts toward the result. That wording tells supporters the count is cumulative and that repeat participation is welcome, even though the ballot stops short of printing a formal limit on repeat voting by one supporter.

Because the 2024 edition is marked ended, a first-time visitor landing on the URL today sees the closed state of the ballot rather than live entries. During an active cycle the same address serves the current entries, and the steps above apply unchanged.

Where this ballot sits among California vote programmes

The GGBR Calendar Contest is unusual in the California set of public-vote programmes because it has a single organizer and a single subject: one rescue's dogs. Most of the state's ballots on this site are reader-choice awards run by publishers across whole regions, where hundreds of local businesses compete in many categories at once.

Those neighbours include Best of Central Valley Business, Best of Marin, Best of Orange County, Best of San Diego & Best Restaurants, Best of Silicon Valley, and the Best of North State Community's Choice Awards. Each of those programmes answers to its own publisher and covers a different slice of the state, from the Central Valley to Silicon Valley to the far north.

The prize is what separates the GGBR ballot from every one of those programmes. A best-of award gives a business a badge and bragging rights; the GGBR contest decides which basset hounds appear on the cover and in the monthly squares of a printed calendar that then sells or circulates for the rescue's benefit. The emotional stakes for supporters are correspondingly personal: people are not voting for a business category, they are voting for a dog they may have adopted from or donated to Golden Gate Basset Rescue.

Strengthening support for your basset's entry

Support in this fundraiser behaves differently from a business award because the electorate is emotional and personal. The supporters who drive a basset to the cover photo are usually the dog's own family, past adopters of the rescue's dogs, and breed-lover communities that circulate rescue fundraisers readily. Sharing the entry link with a short story about the dog tends to travel further in those circles than a bare request.

The rescue's own Vote! Vote!! Vote!!!! copy signals that repeat visits matter, so a supporter who reminds their circle more than once during the window is doing exactly what the ballot encourages. Because Golden Gate Basset Rescue has printed no position on outside vote help, the safe reading is simply to keep support genuine and tied to people who actually care about the dog.

For a broader view of how supporters build momentum in public votes of this kind, our guide to getting more votes online covers outreach habits that apply to rescue photo fundraisers as much as to business ballots.