Palomacy Calendar Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the Palomacy Calendar Contest and who runs it?

Palomacy Pigeon & Dove Adoptions runs the Palomacy Calendar Contest as a summer fundraiser built around photographs of the birds in its care. The organization's contact line places it at P.O. Box 27148, Oakland, CA 94602, and its name states the mission plainly: finding homes for pigeons and doves. Addressing voters on the ballot, the appeal reads, "Please join us in making 2026 a truly wonderful year for these very special birds!"

The technical side sits on GoGo Photo Contest, a photo-ballot platform whose pages carry a 2026 copyright for GGPC, LLC. The current program is titled the Palomacy 2027 Calendar Contest, because the photographs that finish highest fill a calendar issued for the year ahead. Each contestant is a single bird with its own entry page, its own photograph and its own running tally; the web address tied to this program opens straight onto Dodo's entry.

Around the voting itself, the ballot menu gathers Participate, View Entries, Order Calendars, Contest Rules, Prizes, About and Sign In tabs, wrapping the fundraiser's rules, prizes and commerce into one site.

Which editions of the Palomacy Calendar Contest are on the books, and when did the latest round run?

The confirmed run is long but not unbroken. Editions stand for 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026, with 2020 and 2025 absent from that list.

On its contest home page Palomacy greets visitors to what it calls the 12th annual outing of the drive, signaling that the organizer treats it as a yearly fixture even though the confirmed sequence skips two summers.

The most recent round kept a tight July shape. Voting began at 9:00 AM Pacific on Wednesday, July 1, 2026 and stopped at 5:00 PM Pacific on Friday, July 31, 2026, and entering a bird followed the identical span, so photo submissions and vote gathering overlapped completely. Once the deadline passed, the entry pages flipped to a "Contest has ended." notice.

No opening date for the following summer's round has gone up on the ballot yet.

Eligibility terms describing whose birds may enter a future round, and any screening applied before a photograph goes live, are missing from the voting instructions; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

How does a supporter actually vote for a bird?

Voting is per entry. From the ballot home page, the View Entries tab lists every competing bird; opening one, such as Dodo at gogo.photo/662074, brings up the photograph, a running vote count and the vote button. Casting support takes a press of that control, and the printed rule settles any doubt about coming back: "Vote as many times as you want! Invite all your friends and family to vote too."

Placement follows the arithmetic. As the ballot puts it, "The top 190 vote-getting entries will be featured in the virtual calendar," so every press moves a bird nearer a spot among the featured photographs.

A Sign In option appears in the menu, but nothing on the entry flow presents it as a precondition for pressing the vote button, and each bird carries its own short gogo.photo address built for sharing. The Contest Rules, Prizes and About tabs sit beside the voting tools, while Order Calendars handles purchases of the finished product once the round concludes.

Where does this ballot sit among California programs on this site?

California pages here fall into two families. Best of Central Valley Business and Best of Marin both follow the recommendation-ballot model, as do Best of Orange County, the combined Best of San Diego & Best Restaurants ballot and Best of Silicon Valley, where readers endorse local merchants and services rather than individuals. The Palomacy Calendar Contest belongs to the other family: the 2024 GGBR Calendar Contest, a fellow California calendar drive, is its nearest neighbor in format.

What separates this program is its subject and its beneficiary. Instead of businesses competing for a title, individual rescued birds compete for calendar placement, and every vote doubles as support for the adoption work the drive finances. The support is personal rather than civic, too: the tally that matters attaches to a single photograph, like Dodo's, whose counter rested at 41 votes when the contest ended.

For a reader weighing where to spend effort, the practical difference is scope. A business ballot spreads attention across a wide field of local establishments, while this one concentrates everything into a single July window and a photograph-versus-photograph count.

How can a backer build momentum for a bird during the July window?

The ballot's design rewards persistence. With repeats invited explicitly, visits spread across the full July span beat a lone burst, and the organizer's own line, "Invite all your friends and family to vote too," makes outreach part of the intended play. Sharing a bird's short gogo.photo address strips friction out of the ask for anyone reached by message or post, and tying the request to Palomacy's rescue story gives casual contacts a reason to care.

Supporters looking past their own circles can study how to get more votes online, and structured promotion aimed at award-style ballots exists for drives shaped like this one. Whatever mix you choose, staying inside the printed rules keeps every vote eligible for the 190 featured spots.