Maui Humane Society 2025 “Rescue Me” Calendar Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Rescue Me Calendar Contest is and who runs it

The Maui Humane Society 2025 “Rescue Me” Calendar Contest is a public-vote fundraiser run by the Maui Humane Society, the animal welfare organization whose mailing address sits at P.O. Box 1047 in Pu'unene, Hawaii. The ballot showcases Maui's incredible firefighters and lifeguards alongside Maui's beloved pets, and the photos that finish at the top become the main images for the 12 months of the 2025 calendar. Voting takes place on GoGo Photo Contest, a dedicated photo contest platform, at gogophotocontest.com/mhs2025calendar. Each vote costs $1, and the organizer frames that money as support for its life-saving care and local youth arts programs.

For a household or a business deciding whether to enter, the practical shape is easy to read: a single ballot, a single market and a single published price per vote. The rules page itself is famously short, boiling participation down to "VOTE AND SHARE!". The table below gathers the ballot's fixed facts in one place.

Because the organizer publishes so little rule text, most of what an entrant needs to know lives on the ballot itself, not in a handbook, which is why the sections below stay close to what the ballot and the organizer's own pages actually say.

The dated timeline for the Rescue Me Calendar Contest

The program's confirmed edition years run 2023 through 2026, and the organizer's own tag page calls it "the highly awaited Maui Humane Society's annual calendar contest fundraiser". Four consecutive cycles make the recurrence a matter of the organizer's own description, not an inference.

The printed dates come from two organizer pages describing different cycles. The 2024 ballot stated that the voting period would begin at 12:00 AM (HST) on Thursday, August 1, 2024 and end at 11:59 PM (HST) on August 18, 2024. The society's own site, promoting the same fundraiser, told supporters that "for just $1 per vote" they could back its life-saving care and local youth arts programs through August 31st. Read together, the cycles cluster in August, though the exact day-level dates shift between them.

The ballot's framing text also honors Maui firefighters and lifeguards for their heroic response to the Lahaina wildfires on August 8, 2023, which is why first responders appear in the entries alongside pets.

The ballot does not print a list of the calendar categories an entrant can compete within; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The 2025 page currently displays the notice "Contest has ended.", so anyone planning a 2026 or later push is waiting on the organizer to publish the next window rather than on any standing schedule.

How a supporter votes on the Rescue Me ballot today

The mechanic is a purchase, not a free click. A supporter opens gogophotocontest.com/mhs2025calendar, browses the gallery of pet-and-hero pairs, and buys votes at the organizer's published rate of $1 each. The money goes to the Maui Humane Society's life-saving care and local youth arts programs, so the transaction is structured as a donation that carries voting weight. The ballot menu includes a Sign In option for supporters who want a persistent account, but the vote itself is the purchase step.

Every clock on the ballot runs on Hawaiian Time, which matters for anyone coordinating a final-day push from the mainland. The rules page compresses all guidance into "VOTE AND SHARE!", telling supporters that spreading the entry link is as much a part of the program as buying votes. After the window closes, the ballot turns to the calendar itself: the organizer asks supporters to pre-order copies so it can purchase the right amount and avoid wasting valuable funds on extras.

Because the 2025 page already shows "Contest has ended.", a supporter arriving today should treat the live ballot as a preview of the next cycle's format rather than as an open vote. The gallery, the price and the share instruction have held steady across the 2023 through 2026 cycles, so the sequence above is the one to expect when the next window opens.

Where this ballot sits among Hawaii's public-vote programs

The Rescue Me calendar contest is the charity-pet corner of Hawaii's public-vote scene. Its neighbours on this site are mostly reader-choice and people's-choice programs run by publishers and professional bodies: 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 with its Big Island edition.

What separates the Rescue Me ballot from all of them is the subject and the price. Those programs rank businesses and services across many categories on free votes; this one ranks pet-and-first-responder pairs on a single island market, with every vote priced at $1 and the proceeds routed to the Maui Humane Society's care and youth arts programs. The prize is physical too, a printed calendar whose 12 monthly photos come straight from the standings.

That combination changes how a supporter should plan. A free-vote readers' contest rewards volume and daily persistence, while this ballot rewards a concentrated purchase plus genuine sharing, exactly as the organizer's own "VOTE AND SHARE!" instruction suggests. It also means the competition pool is smaller and local, so a well-shared entry in Maui can travel further than the same effort in a statewide business ballot.

Strengthening support for a Rescue Me entry

Support on this ballot has three working levers, all grounded in what the organizer itself publishes. The first is the $1 vote: because every vote is a purchase, a backer's budget converts directly into standings, and the society treats that spending as its fundraiser revenue. The second is sharing, which the rules page elevates to half the program with its "VOTE AND SHARE!" summary; a pet-and-hero pair with a shareable story travels through Maui networks faster than one that only its owner promotes. The third is timing, since the printed windows cluster in August and the clock runs on Hawaiian Time.

The society has published no statement about outside vote assistance, so anyone considering it is reading past what the organizer has actually said. The safer frame is the one the ballot gives: buy votes at the published price, share the entry widely, and let the printed calendar stakes, a photo on one of the 12 months, carry the appeal. For tactics that transfer well to paid-vote ballots like this one, our votes guide covers outreach that works without guessing at unpublished rules.