Doberman Rescue Minnesota Calendar Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the DRM Calendar Contest is and who runs it

Doberman Rescue Minnesota holds a calendar contest as a fundraiser, and the contest page on GoGo Photo Contest says so directly: "Fundraiser for Doberman Rescue Minnesota." The 2026 page is titled "2026 Doberman Rescue Minnesota Calendar Contest," and its welcome line reads, "Welcome to the 2026 DRM Calendar Contest!" The idea is simple. Owners enter a favorite photo of Doberman(s), and the photos that win become the pages of the rescue's calendar.

The page puts a number on that prize: "to win one of 13 coveted spots in the DRM 2026 Calendar." The page does not spell out how the spots are arranged in the finished calendar. It also states that "This contest is open to anyone," which separates it from rescue events limited to adopters or local members.

That openness matters for a rescue fundraiser. A contest limited to Minnesota residents would cap its audience, while one open to anyone lets a Doberman owner in another state, or a relative far away, take part. The rescue gains attention for its calendar and for its cause every time an owner shares an entry link.

Voting runs on the GoGo Photo Contest page rather than on the rescue's own website. The menu offers Participate, View Entries, Rules and About Us. The table below lists the facts that the page states.

The confirmed years and the October 2025 window

Years 2021 through 2026 are confirmed for this contest, which makes it one of the longer-running photo fundraisers among the sibling pages. The 2026 round is the one whose window is printed. Note how the calendar year leads the contest by a few months: the 2026 calendar was voted on in October 2025.

The six confirmed years give the contest a history that most single-season photo votes lack. The earliest confirmed year is 2021, and the latest is 2026, so a supporter can read the contest as a yearly habit of the rescue and not an experiment. The page title changes each year to name the calendar being built, which is how a reader can tell a current round from an old one.

Entries and voting share the same window, so a photo can collect votes from the moment it appears. The page does not print a vote limit or a category list for the round, and the rules for the next round are not yet published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. A new round normally brings a new title year, so the 2027 title would signal the next calendar.

How votes decide the 13 calendar spots

The ballot is a gallery. A supporter opens View Entries, looks through the Doberman photos and votes for favorites. Because entries and voting run over the same week, the earliest photos have the longest time to gather votes, while a late entry has less. A week-long window, from a Sunday morning to the following Sunday evening, rewards owners who start sharing on day one.

How the 13 winners are picked is not fully spelled out in the text on file. The page says the contest is to "win one of 13 coveted spots," and the Rules link is where a supporter should look for how votes translate into spots. The page does not say how many votes a person can cast or whether an account is needed, so those answers sit on the live listing.

There is a practical side to the shared window. An owner who enters on the final evening has only hours to collect votes, while one who enters at 8:00 AM on the opening Sunday has the full week. Rescue supporters who follow Doberman Rescue Minnesota can help by voting early, since early votes show a photo to later visitors as a contender.

Because winners appear in a printed calendar for the rescue, the vote has a lasting product: a year of photos on a wall. That is part of why owners campaign hard for it. Supporters outside Minnesota can vote too, since the page says the contest is open to anyone. A voter who loves Dobermans, supports the rescue or knows an owner has a reason to take part.

How the calendar contest differs from Minnesota's other ballots

Minnesota's other ballots on this site are readers' polls run by newspapers and regional outlets. The Doberman calendar contest is a rescue fundraiser with a single breed and a fixed prize of 13 spots. Its siblings are Best of the Midwest, Minnesota's Best, Best of the Best Brainerd Lakes Area, CommunityVotes Duluth, CommunityVotes Rochester and the Duluth News Tribune's Best of the Best.

Another difference is the audience. A newspaper poll draws local readers who know the businesses on the ballot, while the DRM contest draws people who love the breed and the rescue, wherever they live. The same person might vote in Minnesota's Best for a favorite restaurant and in the Doberman contest for a favorite dog photo, and the two ballots never compete for the same vote.

Those siblings ask for picks across many categories, while the DRM contest asks for one vote on a photo, in a single week.

Building support for a Doberman photo

Support here is about reach within a short week. An owner can share the entry link with friends, other Doberman owners and relatives from the first morning of the round. The Rules page is the authority on anything about limits.

Our guide to getting more votes online covers outreach for public ballots, and buy votes online describes the paid service. The rescue has said nothing about outside help in the text on file, and a calendar spot cannot be promised.