Save the Horses Rescue Love Calendar Photo Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the Save the Horses Rescue Love Calendar Photo Contest?

Save the Horses Rescue, an equine welfare organization based in Cumming, Georgia, runs the Rescue Love Calendar Photo Contest as its headline fundraiser. The organization describes its mission in plain terms: "We rescue, rehabilitate and rehome horses and other animals in need." Its ballot casts the current drive as a chance to "raise critical funds to feed and provide veterinary care for 100 rescued horses and 30 other animals of Save the Horses Rescue in Cumming, GA."

The ballot itself lives at gogophotocontest.com/savethehorses. Its menus cover the whole drive: Enter Contest for submitting a photo, View Entries/Vote for browsing and backing entries, Reserve Calendar Day and Calendar Order for the printed product, Rainbow Bridge Memorials for tribute listings, business sponsorship and banner-ad options, a Prizes section, an About Us page and a Sign In link for returning participants.

Unlike the metro reader-choice ballots scattered across Georgia, this contest ties its result directly to a working rescue's operating costs, which makes the vote totals a fundraising measure as much as a popularity ranking.

When does the Save the Horses calendar contest take votes?

Editions confirmed so far

This fundraiser carries two confirmed edition years, 2025 and 2026, and the organizer announces each calendar season as it arrives. Its own greeting for the present drive reads: "Save the Horses 2027 RESCUE LOVE Calendar Photo Contest is here - Post Your Pictures Today!"

The live voting window sits inside October 2026. Day-level opening dates and any multi-round schedule are not printed anywhere on the ballot; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

The ballot's masthead titles the whole drive after the Rescue Love calendar, the keepsake the fundraiser produces, and the same masthead's sponsorship menus raise money beside the vote revenue.

Because the drive is annual, a supporter who misses the October window generally waits for the next calendar season rather than a mid-year reopening.

How does a supporter vote in the Rescue Love photo contest?

This ballot prices participation openly. Every vote is a $1 donation, and the donation form sets a $5 minimum, so even the smallest gift pushes a chosen photo forward while funding the rescue's herd.

The path runs through View Entries/Vote: a supporter browses the photo grid, selects an entry, chooses a donation amount and completes checkout. Prospective entrants go through Enter Contest instead, signing in to upload their picture, while Reserve Calendar Day and Calendar Order handle the calendar side of the drive once photos are placed.

Each completed donation attaches to the chosen entry, and the totals visible on each photo reflect the giving behind them. The flow works the same in a phone browser as on a desktop, since the whole drive runs as a standard web page.

Categories and repeat-giving limits are absent from the fundraiser ballot; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. Entry eligibility terms are likewise left off the voting pages, so anyone considering a photo submission should read the entry form before uploading.

How does this ballot sit beside other Georgia vote contests?

Georgia's public-vote landscape is crowded with community choice ballots run by local publishers, and six of them sit closest to this fundraiser in searches: the Athens Community's Choice Awards, Best of Augusta, Best of Atlanta, Best of Cobb, Best of Forsyth and Best of Middle Georgia.

Those six serve metro and regional readerships picking favorites among local businesses, foods and services. Their outcomes celebrate merchants and civic pride, while the Save the Horses ballot rallies people around animal welfare, and its outcome feeds a rescue's budget rather than a publisher's feature spread.

The rescue itself straddles two small Georgia addresses, operating in Cumming while its mail goes to a Ball Ground post office box, whereas each of the six ballots above belongs to the city or region it names.

The emotional register differs too. Community choice ballots trade on local rivalry and hometown loyalty, while this drive channels affection for individual animals into measurable giving.

For a supporter deciding where to invest effort, the wallet is the dividing line: backing a rescue photo costs money by design, and the cause, not a merchant's bragging rights, absorbs the benefit.

How can an entry pull ahead in the Save the Horses fundraiser?

Dollars are the currency here, so a campaign that waits for casual discovery stalls. Entrants do better by giving their networks a concrete ask: a specific donation amount, tied to the $1-per-vote rate, with the October 25 close named so nobody delays.

Sharing the entry link with a personal note, grouping friends into a giving day, and reminding lapsed supporters near the deadline all fit the way this ballot converts generosity into votes. The organizer has printed no policy on third-party vote help, so any outside assistance stays within the rules visible on the ballot itself. Broader tactics for strengthening a public vote appear in this guide to getting more votes online.