2027 Pets in Paradise Calendar Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the 2027 Pets in Paradise Calendar Contest is and who runs it

The 2027 Pets in Paradise Calendar Contest is a pet photo fundraiser that the Hawaiian Humane Society, an animal welfare organization at 2700 Waialae Ave, Honolulu, HI 96826, organizes each year. Its ballot is hosted on GoGo Photo Contest, a fundraising platform that builds paid-vote photo contests for shelters and nonprofits, and the live voting page sits at gogophotocontest.com/petsinparadise2027. The society frames the program with the line "Every pet is a star!", and proceeds support what its page calls life-changing programs and services.

The format is a calendar contest rather than a straightforward trophy: entrants submit pet photos, supporters pay for votes, and the resulting standings decide which animals appear in the printed 2027 Pets in Paradise calendar. The ballot's navigation spells out the full product around the vote, with links for View Entries, Calendar Order, Contest Rules, Prizes, Pre-Order Calendar and Sponsor a Month. That last item matters for businesses, because sponsoring a calendar month is a separate way to be featured without competing on the leaderboard.

For readers weighing this ballot against other Hawaii public votes, the closest comparison on this site is the Maui Humane Society Pet and Firefighter Calendar Contest, a sibling pet-calendar fundraiser on a neighboring island. The table below collects the core facts in one place.

The dated record: which editions ran and when the window falls

Three years of the Hawaiian Humane Society's calendar contest are confirmed: 2024, 2025 and 2026. The program name carries the 2027 label because each ballot raises money for the calendar printed the following year, so the 2026 voting cycle produced the 2027 Pets in Paradise calendar. That forward-facing name is easy to misread as a schedule; the years that have actually run are the three listed above.

The 2026 ballot accepted photo submissions and votes from June 1 to June 30, 2026, with voting ending at 9:00 PM HST on June 30th. The page also noted Hawaiian Time and, past the close, displayed a "Contest has ended" notice. Photo submissions and votes shared the same window, so entry and campaigning happened in a single June push rather than in separate nomination and voting rounds.

What the organizer has not published on the page held here is the list of ballot categories, a per-supporter limit or the eligibility wording for entrants; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The Contest Rules link sits in the ballot's own navigation, so the terms are one click away on the live site even though they are not reproduced on this page.

Because the program has run in three consecutive years, planning around June as the expected voting month is reasonable, but no published source states when the next cycle will open or close. The live ballot is where the next window will be confirmed first.

How a supporter votes on the Pets in Paradise ballot today

The mechanic is paid voting: one dollar buys one vote on the GoGo Photo Contest ballot. A supporter opens gogophotocontest.com/petsinparadise2027, browses the View Entries grid, and picks the pet to back. Each entry displays its running vote total, so the leaderboard is visible while you browse rather than hidden until the end. The Contest Rules and Prizes links sit in the same navigation bar, and a Sign In link handles the account step.

The leaderboard from the 2026 cycle shows how tight a paid calendar race gets. The top entry, Canine Concierge Ohana, held 5567 votes, followed by FINN at 4980, Mochi at 4757, Sweetie at 4650 and Douglas at 4315. Five pets bunched within a few hundred votes of one another means a single late surge of even a few hundred dollars in votes can move an entry several places, which is exactly why calendar contests stay competitive until the 9:00 PM HST close.

After voting closes, the product side takes over. The ballot carries Order Your Calendar and Pre-Order Calendar links, and the page credited supporters with helping raise $81,295. Sponsor a Month remains open as an alternative route into the printed calendar for supporters who would rather buy a placement than fund a vote campaign.

Anyone planning a multi-day voting effort should read the organizer's Contest Rules first, since the per-supporter limit is not reproduced on this page. The award votes page explains how paid-vote ballots of this shape generally work for supporters comparing options.

How this ballot sits beside its Hawaii neighbours

Hawaii runs a small cluster of public-vote programs, and the Pets in Paradise ballot differs from most of them in both vertical and mechanic. Its nearest neighbours are the other humane society fundraisers: the Kaua'i Humane Society 2026 Photo Fundraiser & Pet Calendar Contest and the Maui Humane Society Pet and Firefighter Calendar Contest. All three are island shelter calendar contests, but each answers to its own publisher, runs its own window and hosts its own ballot, so a vote on one counts for nothing in the standings of the others.

The rest of the state's slate is best-of voting rather than pet photo contests. the AIA Honolulu People's Choice Awards polls on architecture, while Best of Hawaii, the 2026 Hale 'Aina Awards and the 2026 Readers' Choice: Hawai'i Island cover dining and local-business categories. Those ballots usually cost nothing to vote; the Pets in Paradise contest is the odd one out in charging a dollar per vote, because the vote itself is the donation.

What makes the Hawaiian Humane Society's program distinctive in this group is the combination of a June window, a paid vote tied directly to the charity, and a physical calendar as the prize. A supporter deciding where to spend a fixed budget should weigh that dollar-per-vote structure against the free best-of ballots before choosing which race to fund.

Strengthening support for a pet on the Pets in Paradise leaderboard

Because every vote on this ballot is a one-dollar donation to the Hawaiian Humane Society, a support campaign is really a fundraising campaign, and the entries that finish highest are the ones whose owners treat it that way across the whole June window. Sharing the entry link with a specific ask, posting leaderboard movement to keep momentum visible, and asking again near the 9:00 PM HST close on June 30 are the moves this ballot's own structure rewards.

The organizer's Contest Rules are linked from the ballot navigation, and they govern what outside help is acceptable, so read them before spending on any third-party support. Since the vote is paid, the honest framing for backers is that each dollar is a donation with a leaderboard effect, not a free click. For a fuller rundown of outreach methods that suit paid photo fundraisers, see our votes guide, and the buy votes online page explains the general market for anyone comparing routes.