North Bergen Purr Pet Calendar Photo Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the North Bergen Purr Pet Calendar Photo Contest and who runs it?

North Bergen Purr runs a pet photo fundraiser that converts supporter votes into a printed wall calendar. The contest site identifies the organizer as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, and the pages carry the group's mailing address, 60 Brandywyne Drive, Florham Park, NJ 07932. However the Bergen in the name reads, the operation itself sits in Florham Park, and the cause behind every ballot is the community cats living in supporters' own neighborhoods. The homepage pitches the offer plainly: send in amazing pet photos, win prizes, and help neighborhood cats while doing it.

Balloting happens on the fundraiser's own contest property at gogophotocontest.com/northbergenpurr, and the footer carries a Copyright line naming GGPC, LLC dated 2026. The live round is branded the 2027 Pet Calendar Photo Contest, so photos backed during this cycle land in the calendar printed for the following year. Site navigation includes Prizes, Rules, About Us and Sign In menus, giving supporters dedicated places to read the fine print before committing donations.

Item	Detail
Organizer	North Bergen Purr
Organization type	501(c)(3) charitable organization
Listed address	60 Brandywyne Drive, Florham Park, NJ 07932
Ballot address	gogophotocontest.com/northbergenpurr
Cause	Community cats in local neighborhoods
Product	Printed 2027 pet calendar
Site copyright	GGPC, LLC, 2026

Everything a supporter needs, from entering a photo to the final vote, runs through that single contest hub rather than a separate polling platform.

When does the North Bergen Purr calendar contest run, and which editions are confirmed?

Confirmed editions of the fundraiser ran in 2025 and 2026, both inside autumn windows. The 2025 round opened to entries October 1, 2025 and wrapped late at night, closing 11:59 PM EST November 2, 2025. The 2026 round keeps the seasonal shape with adjusted clock times: entries and voting go live Friday, October 2, 2026 at 9:00 AM Eastern, and the vote shuts down Sunday, November 8, 2026 at 9:00 PM Eastern.

Once the ballots settle, the site lays out a short runway to the finished product. Winners are announced on Tuesday, November 10, pre-orders and day reservations close on Thursday, November 19, and calendars mail on December 10.

Stage	Date	Note
Entries and voting open	9:00 AM ET, Friday, October 2, 2026	Entry and voting run together
Voting closes	9:00 PM ET, Sunday, November 8, 2026	Evening close, earlier than 2025
Winners announced	Tuesday, November 10	Two days after the close
Pre-orders and day reservations close	Thursday, November 19	Calendar month claims lock in
Calendars mailed	December 10	Printed product ships

Back-to-back autumn editions feeding successive calendars mark this as an annual fundraiser, with the 2026 vote producing the 2027 printed product. How entries are divided, if they are divided at all, is not shown anywhere on the 2027 contest pages; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

How does voting work in the North Bergen Purr pet calendar contest?

The ballot behaves like a donor drive as much as a poll. A supporter reaches the contest hub during the window, browses the pets whose humans entered them, and backs a favorite by casting votes. The printed rule is blunt: "Each vote requires a $1 donation." That structure turns every click into a contribution, so a pet's tally and the funds raised climb together.

The homepage's Why It Matters block ties the drive directly to North Bergen Purr's community cat work, which reframes the spending: a supporter is giving to a charity and competing for calendar placement in the same gesture. Reaching the ballot requires nothing beyond arriving during the window and covering the per-vote donation; no membership step is described on the entry pages themselves.

Because the donation rule prices every vote, campaigns that mobilize friends and family effectively fundraise while they compete. A pet whose backers treat the tally as a giving goal tends to sustain support across the whole stretch between early October and early November, rather than burning out in the opening days. The Rules menu on the contest site holds the governing text, and reading it before planning a push spares a campaign surprises mid-window.

How does this fundraiser sit beside other New Jersey public votes?

Within the state's public-vote landscape, this contest's closest neighbors are other pet ballots: the Furrever Friends Rescue & Volunteers Pet Photo Calendar Contest, another rescue calendar decided by supporter votes, and the 94.5 PST Pet Costume Contest, a radio station's seasonal costume poll. Puppy Bowl 2025 pulled a similar audience toward a national-style pet event.

Beyond pets, the Asbury Park Press High School Athlete of the Week ballot and the Asbury Park Press Readers' Choice program show the free-click newspaper model, while Bergen & Morris Top Dentists runs the best-of professional directory format. What separates the North Bergen Purr drive is its price tag and its product: rather than unlimited free clicks, each vote routes a dollar to the charity, and the reward is calendar placement, with the leading pet earning first choice of month in the 2027 printing.

That combination gives the contest a fundraising engine most free polls lack, plus a tangible deliverable backers can hold in their hands when December arrives. Geography differs too: the organizer operates from Florham Park, while several sibling ballots serve statewide or shore-facing audiences. For a supporter deciding where to invest effort, the fork is simple. Free polls reward volume and sharing; this one rewards donors, and the pet that inspires the most giving wins the calendar's best spot.

How can a supporter give a pet a stronger shot at the calendar?

Momentum in this fundraiser flows from donors rather than clickers, so the practical levers look like fundraising levers. Share the pet's entry page while the October-to-November window is open, ask friends and relatives to budget a handful of donation votes apiece, and remind them that the leading pet claims its calendar month before anyone else. Timing matters because the whole round compresses into the stretch between early October and early November; a campaign that waits until the closing week has little runway left to close a gap.

On outside help, the printed rules cover the donation mechanics, and nothing on the contest pages endorses or forbids third-party voting services either way. Outreach methods that suit donor-priced polls are collected in this guide to getting more votes online, and the way paid award voting works in general is explained at this award-vote overview. Whichever route a campaign takes, the per-vote donation structure stays exactly as the organizer set it.