Community Concern for Cats Calendar Cat Photo Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the CC4C Calendar Cat Photo Contest is and who runs it

The Community Concern for Cats Calendar Cat Photo Contest is a fundraiser built around cat photos that doubles as a cover-model election. Cc4c, a cat rescue organization with adoption sites in Walnut Creek, California, runs the contest to raise money for its rescue work and to produce its annual calendar. GoGo Photo Contest, a commercial contest platform, carries the ballot at gogophotocontest.com/cc4c.

The pitch on the ballot is written for cat owners: make your cat famous and help save lives. An owner enters a favorite photo, pays the entry fee, and then campaigns for votes, because the cat with the most votes at the close of the window becomes the Cover Cat on the 2027 calendar. That makes this a vertical of one: unlike the reader's-choice ballots that rank businesses across a region, every entry here is a single animal competing for one cover spot.

The table below gathers the facts a supporter needs before entering.

The dated record: editions, the 2026 window, and what is not published

Two edition years have already run: 2025 and 2026. That is enough to treat the fundraiser as a recurring annual event rather than a one-time appeal, and the numbering follows the calendar each window produces, so the live 2026 window feeds the 2027 calendar now being voted on.

The live window is dated precisely. The contest starts at 9:00 AM Pacific Time on September 14, 2026, and entries close at 10:00 PM Pacific Time on Wednesday, October 14, 2026. That is a one-month campaign, and the organizer's own page states the same span as September 14 through October 14, 2026. Anything after that close belongs to the next cycle, whose dates Cc4c sets when it opens the following ballot.

Two things the ballot page leaves out. First, the lineup of calendar categories is not printed there, so an owner wondering whether there are placement tiers beyond the cover should read the rules tab on the live ballot. Second, the page carries no per-supporter vote limit, no rule on returning to vote day after day, and no eligibility text; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

How a supporter enters and votes today

The mechanic has two sides: entering and voting. To enter, an owner opens gogophotocontest.com/cc4c once the contest clock has started, uploads a favorite photo of their cat, and pays five dollars. The entry fee is the fundraiser's engine, and the ballot frames it as a small price to make a cat famous while funding rescue work.

Once the photo is in, GoGo Photo Contest generates a dedicated page for that cat. The owner's job for the next month is to share that page with friends and family, because votes arrive when people visit the page and cast them. The leaderboard on the ballot shows where each cat stands, and the contest closes at 10:00 PM Pacific Time on October 14, 2026.

The prize structure is simple and printed on the ballot: the Cover Cat prize goes to the cat with the most votes, and that cat is featured on the cover of the 2027 calendar. There is no separate judging round described on the ballot page, so vote count alone decides the cover. A supporter who wants a cat on the cover should plan the sharing campaign early in the window rather than saving it for the final week, since a month of steady sharing beats a last-day push on any leaderboard like this one.

How this ballot sits beside its California neighbours

Within this site's California coverage, the CC4C calendar contest is the odd one out, and that is useful context for anyone landing here from a search. The neighbouring pages cover reader's-choice ballots: 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. Those ballots rank businesses and services across their regions, usually with many categories at once.

This contest answers to a different structure entirely. It has one organizer, one platform, one prize, and a market defined by a rescue organization's home city rather than by a media region. A vote here goes to a cat, not to a plumber or a restaurant, and the payoff is a calendar cover instead of a best-of title. For a supporter, the upshot is a single leaderboard over one month, so tactics borrowed from multi-category ballots, where votes split across dozens of categories, do not transfer directly. Every vote cast on gogophotocontest.com/cc4c counts toward one standings list, which is why the sharing campaign carries more weight here than it does where a vote is one of many.

Strengthening support in this fundraiser

Because this ballot is a single leaderboard, support compounds in a way multi-category contests do not. The organizer's own page tells entrants to share their cat's page with friends and family, and that is the whole game: the five-dollar entry buys the spot on the leaderboard, and votes come from people the owner reaches. A photo that shows the cat clearly, a short caption, and a direct ask in a message rather than a bare link all lift conversion from page visit to vote.

On outside help, the ballot page prints no rule either way, so before spending money an entrant should read the contest rules tab on the live ballot and weigh what paid votes involve against it. No purchase can be described here as safe or effective for this ballot, because Cc4c's rules text is the only authority on what it allows, and that text should be read where it is published.