2025 LOLIN Calendar Photo Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the LOLIN Calendar Photo Contest is and who runs it

The 2025 LOLIN Calendar Photo Contest is a charity photo fundraiser run by Love of Labs Indiana (LOLIN), a Labrador rescue organization headquartered at 8063 Madison Avenue, #235, Indianapolis, IN 46227. The contest invites LOLIN alum families, people who have adopted a dog through the rescue, to submit photos of their Labradors, and the community then votes by donating. The winning photographs are printed in the following year's LOLIN Calendar, which doubles as a fundraiser product for the organization.

GoGo Photo Contest hosts the ballot at gogophotocontest.com/loveoflabsindiana2025; the service specializes in nonprofit photo fundraisers. It handles the entry forms, the photo gallery and the donation based voting, while LOLIN sets the dates, the prizes and the rules. The page describes the fundraiser directly to its own community: "Welcome Love of Labs Indiana family! Thank you for participating in our 2025 Love of Labs Indiana Calendar Contest."

Unlike the best-of ballots that cover Indiana businesses, this contest has a single subject matter, Labrador photos, and a single prize structure built around the printed calendar. The table below gathers what the ballot confirms about the program.

The dated record: entry window, voting window and what LOLIN has not published

The 2024 cycle, which produced the 2025 calendar, had two phases. Entries were accepted between 12:00 AM Eastern Time on Thursday, August 15, 2024, and midnight on Friday, August 30, 2024. Voting then began at 12:00 AM Eastern Time on Saturday, August 31, 2024, and ended at 11:59:59 PM Eastern, Sunday, September 15, 2024. Both phases ran on the GoGo Photo Contest ballot, and the dates were printed on the contest page itself.

Confirmed editions of the program exist for 2024 and 2025, and the organizer's pages describe the fundraiser as an annual event tied to the calendar year being produced. A 2026 edition would follow the same pattern, but LOLIN had not published its dates at the time of the 2025 cycle's close.

Several facts are missing from the published ballot. LOLIN has not printed the list of photo categories its contest accepts, so whether submissions are grouped by breed, age or theme is something a supporter should confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The rules text also does not state a ceiling on how many dollars one supporter may donate, nor an eligibility rule beyond the implication that photos feature LOLIN alums. Platform level round dates for future editions are likewise absent. The calendar itself was scheduled for release on or about November 25, 2024, which gives the organizer roughly two months after voting closes to lay out and print the winning photos.

How a supporter votes in the LOLIN calendar fundraiser

The mechanic on this ballot is a donation vote, not a free click. A supporter opens the photo gallery at gogophotocontest.com/loveoflabsindiana2025, finds the Labrador they want to back, and clicks the vote control on that photo's page. The donation checkout starts at a five dollar minimum, and each dollar donated counts as one vote for the selected photo. A supporter who wants a bigger push simply gives more, since the vote total is a direct function of dollars raised.

This structure matters for anyone strategizing. In a free click contest, a supporter can return daily and the organizer may cap repeat votes; here, the organizer's constraint is the minimum donation, and the published rules do not state any limit on repeat donations. The prize ladder rewards sustained fundraising: the next top 12 vote recipients have their photos used as full page images in the 2025 LOLIN Calendar, and the top vote earner's photo becomes the cover page. That top supporter also receives one (1) copy of the 2025 calendar.

Because every vote costs money and the money goes to LOLIN's rescue work, the ballot reads less like a popularity poll and more like a giving campaign with a photo prize attached. Supporters who want their dog on a calendar page are effectively sponsoring the rescue at whatever level their budget allows, and the leaderboard shows exactly where each dollar lands.

How this ballot sits beside Indiana's other public vote programs

Indiana's public vote landscape is dominated by best-of ballots, and the LOLIN calendar contest is the odd one out. The state's largest program, Best of Indiana, covers businesses and services statewide. CommunityVotes runs a family of city level ballots: CommunityVotes Bloomington IN Best Of, CommunityVotes Evansville Best Of, CommunityVotes Fort Wayne Best Of, and YourChoiceAwards South Bend Best Of. The Best of Elkhart County program, run by a newspaper, covers one county.

What separates the LOLIN contest from all of those is the vote currency. The best-of ballots are free click votes, usually with daily return rules, while LOLIN's ballot converts dollars directly into votes with a five dollar minimum. That makes the competition narrower, since the pool of voters is limited to people willing to donate to a Labrador rescue, but it also means each vote carries a measurable value to the organizer.

The audience differs too. A best-of ballot asks the general public to pick a favorite plumber or restaurant; the LOLIN ballot asks a specific community, LOLIN alum families, to celebrate their own adopted dogs. A supporter strategizing across Indiana programs should read this page's donation mechanic on its own terms rather than importing assumptions from the free vote contests, and the general votes guide covers how the two formats reward different kinds of outreach.

Strengthening support for a LOLIN calendar entry

Because each dollar donated counts as one vote, support in this fundraiser is built in two layers. The first is the entrant's own donation: a five dollar minimum buys five votes immediately, and a larger single gift moves a photo up the leaderboard faster than several small ones, since the transaction cost of donating is fixed. The second layer is outreach: the photo's page has a direct link that family and friends can use to donate, and a Labrador's photo does the persuading on its own.

LOLIN's published rules text does not address outside vote services, so LOLIN's stance on purchased votes is unstated. What is certain is that the ballot's own mechanic already monetizes votes, and the money funds the rescue. Anyone considering outside help should read the trust page on whether paid votes are lawful and the program's own rules before spending anything, since a charity fundraiser's community may react badly to votes that did not come through the donation box.

The practical ceiling is the voting window itself, which ran sixteen days in the 2024 cycle. Spreading donations and outreach across that window, rather than concentrating everything near the close, gives a photo steadier visibility on the leaderboard.