2027 Calendar Contest (MHS): How Voting Works & How to Win

What the 2027 Calendar Contest is and who runs it

Maui Humane Society runs the 2027 Calendar Contest (MHS), a photo-based calendar fundraiser in which supporters vote for the pet photos they want to see in the shelter's printed 2027 calendar. The mhs2027calendar program is hosted by GoGo Photo Contest, a dedicated photo-contest site whose market path here is mhs2027calendar, and the confirmed voting page sits at https://www.gogophotocontest.com/mhs2027calendar/entries/676015.

The organizer describes itself as Maui County's only open-admission animal shelter, taking in and caring for nearly 5,000 animals in need each year, and the contest is one of the ways it turns that community goodwill into support. The market is Maui, Hawaii, and the mailing address the organizer publishes is Humane Society P.O. Box 1047, Pu'unene, HI 96784.

In shape, the 2027 Calendar Contest is a best-of style ballot: shelter pet entries compete head to head for public votes, and there is no separate nomination stage printed on the ballot page. The site navigation carries Participate, View Entries, Calendar Order, Rules and About Us tabs, plus a Sign In option, and the footer reads Copyright 2026 GGPC, LLC, which is the platform operator's mark rather than the shelter's.

Facts at a glance

The dated record for this ballot

The voting period for the 2027 cycle begins at 12:00 AM HST on Monday, August 17, 2026 and ends at 11:59 PM HST on August 31, 2026. That window is printed in the shelter's own ballot text, and the entire contest runs on Hawaiian Time, so the close falls in the evening locally rather than at a mainland midnight.

Alongside the 2025 and 2026 editions already recorded for this series, the 2027 title marks the cycle now running, which makes the August 2026 window the third consecutive summer the shelter has staged the ballot on this platform. Once the close passes, the entries page header switches to Contest has ended, and vote counts freeze as displayed.

Maui Humane Society has not published the category lineup for the 2027 calendar or any ceiling on repeat voting; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. Entry fees, calendar pricing and the treatment of top-placing photos are likewise absent from the entries page, and the Rules tab is the only place they could appear during the live window.

Nothing on the ballot page announces a nomination round ahead of voting, so the August dates are the whole published schedule for the cycle.

How a supporter votes today

Voting takes almost no setup. A supporter opens the confirmed ballot page, browses the entries grid, and presses the vote control on the pet photo they want to back. Each entry carries its own photo, entrant name and running total; the Koa by Kōwhai entry, for instance, displayed 202 votes while the window was live, alongside a Share control and a copyable short link in the gogo.photo format.

That short link matters more than it looks. Because every entry has its own address, a supporter who receives a shared link lands directly on the right photo instead of searching the grid, which is how most votes on a shelter calendar ballot actually arrive. The copy button on the entry confirms the link is copied before it is posted anywhere.

The Hawaiian Time clock governs everything: votes placed before the August 17 open or after the August 31 close do not count, and the page says so plainly by switching its header to Contest has ended once the deadline passes. The Sign In option in the navigation suggests the platform can associate votes with an account, but the ballot text does not state whether that is required, so a supporter should simply attempt the vote and follow any prompt the platform raises.

How this ballot sits beside its Hawaii neighbours

Within the Hawaii page set, this program is unusual because it answers to a single charity rather than a media publisher. The neighbouring ballots are the AIA Honolulu People's Choice Awards, Best of Hawaii, the Hawaii Business Magazine People's Choice Award, the Hawaii Home + Remodeling Readers' Choice Awards, and the HAWAIʻI Magazine Readers' Choice Awards together with its Big Island edition. Those are readers-choice and professional-award programs covering businesses and services across the islands.

The MHS calendar contest differs in subject and in stakes. Its entries are shelter pets rather than local companies, its audience is animal lovers on Maui and beyond, and its outcome is a printed product, the 2027 calendar, that supporters can order through the Calendar Order tab. A vote here supports a specific animal's photo rather than a business's ranking.

It also differs in platform. The readers-choice programs in this market run on their own publishers' voting systems, while the mhs2027calendar ballot is one of the shelter fundraisers GoGo Photo Contest hosts, with entries pages, share links and vote controls designed for that purpose. For readers comparing Hawaii ballots, the closest structural cousins are the Best of Hawaii program and the HAWAIʻI Magazine Readers' Choice Awards, both of which share the public-vote mechanic if not the subject matter.

Strengthening support for a shelter calendar entry

Because this ballot rewards a single photo with calendar placement, support compounds through sharing rather than through repeat visits by the same people. The entry's own gogo.photo short link is the tool the platform hands every supporter: post it, resend it during the two-week August window, and let each new voter land directly on the photo instead of the grid.

Maui Humane Society has not printed any statement about outside help or organized voting on the entries page, so the Rules tab is where any such term would live, and reading it before rallying a network is the responsible step. The shelter's interest is a fair, successful fundraiser, and its published terms control what is acceptable.

For tactics that apply to public photo ballots generally, see how to get more votes online, and for the broader service context see buy votes online. Winning the 2027 calendar is never something any outside service can guarantee; the spots go to the photos with the most counted votes when the Hawaiian Time clock runs out on August 31.