CHA Animal Shelter Calendar Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the CHA Animal Shelter Calendar Contest and who runs it?

CHA Animal Shelter runs this fundraiser from Columbus. The ballot page lists the organization at 3765 Corporate Drive, Columbus, OH 43231, and titles the program "CHA Animal Shelter's 2027 Calendar Contest," with the descriptor "Fundraiser for CHA Animal Shelter." The format is a pet photo drive rather than a business ranking: supporters submit a picture of a dog or a cat, pay the $10 entry fee, and the finished product is the shelter's Alumni Calendar, in which, in the page's own words, all cat and dog pictures that are submitted will be included.

The platform underneath the vote

The balloting sits on GoGo Photo Contest, whose home page carries the tagline "The #1 Donate-To-Vote Fundraising Platform." That company's story page traces the model to 2005, when a local humane society asked its founder, Jason, to take an annual photo contest online. The shelter's own account, published on that same story page, says it came upon GoGo Photo Contest in 2015 while searching for a new way to run its annual Calendar Contest and has continued the fundraiser each year since.

Item	Detail
Program	CHA Animal Shelter's 2027 Calendar Contest
Organizer	CHA Animal Shelter
Address	3765 Corporate Drive, Columbus, OH 43231
Platform	GoGo Photo Contest
Ballot address	https://www.gogophotocontest.com/chaanimalshelter
Entry	Dog or cat photo, $10 fee
Cause	Fundraiser for CHA Animal Shelter

Which editions of the shelter's calendar vote are on file, and when does the window fall?

Two cycles of this ballot stand confirmed: 2025 and 2026. The ballot page meanwhile titles itself "CHA Animal Shelter's 2027 Calendar Contest," pointing at the next calendar in the sequence, even while the prior cycle's banner reads "Contest has ended." The shelter's own history, told on GoGo Photo Contest's story page, explains the continuity: it went looking for a new platform in 2015 and has carried the fundraiser forward from there, so the calendar vote reads as a standing commitment of the shelter rather than a trial that faded away.

What the page leaves unsettled

Timing is the open question. Open and close dates for the vote appear nowhere on the shelter's ballot page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The same page arranges the contest around individual pet photos instead of named award classes, so there is no category roster to translate from another contest's format. GoGo Photo Contest likewise posts no round-by-round schedule for this particular ballot. The practical anchors a supporter can rely on are the banner state and the countdown clock, which runs on Eastern Time.

How does a supporter actually vote in the CHA calendar ballot?

The sequence is short. A supporter opens the ballot address, switches to the View Entries view, and browses the grid of dog and cat photos. Each entry carries its own vote control, and the donate-to-vote framing means the fundraising step sits alongside the ballot rather than behind a separate door. The navigation also shows a Sign In link, yet nothing on the ballot states that signing in is required before a vote counts, so a first-time visitor can simply arrive and take part.

Where the stakes sit

Placement is what the tally decides. The photo finishing first becomes the featured image for the calendar cover and the month of January, and the entries placing second through twelfth each claim a month among the remaining eleven. Every other dog and cat picture entered still prints inside the calendar, so no entrant leaves without a place in the book.

Finish	Calendar placement
1st place	Cover and the month of January
2nd through 12th	The remaining months
All other entries	Printed inside the calendar

Devices and deadlines: nothing device-specific appears in the shelter's guidance, and the same entry grid serves a phone and a desktop alike. Because the cycle closes on the platform's clock rather than the supporter's, the Eastern Time countdown matters most in the final stretch.

How does this shelter ballot sit beside Ohio's other public votes?

Ohio's public-vote scene around this program leans heavily toward consumer rankings, and the contrast with its sibling ballots is easy to draw. 97.1 The Fan Pizza Madness Columbus stages a pizza bracket for a radio station's audience; the Akron Community's Choice Awards and the CBUS Top Picks Community Choice Awards run the community-choice format; and the Best in Ohio Business Awards, the statewide Best of Ohio, and Best of Cincinnati rank businesses and local institutions across many categories. This ballot breaks from that shape in three ways. First, the nominees are pets, not storefronts, which changes who mobilizes: households and friend networks rather than customer bases. Second, the output is physical, a printed Alumni Calendar that every entered photo appears in, instead of a badge or a directory listing. Third, money moves at entry, through the $10 fee that supports the shelter, while the vote itself decides honorific placements such as the cover and the January slot. For readers comparing Ohio ballots, the closest structural cousins remain the community choice formats linked below, but the cause-driven framing here puts the program nearer to charity fundraisers than to commerce rankings. 97.1 The Fan Pizza Madness Columbus and CBUS Top Picks Community Choice Awards show the difference in practice.

How can supporters help a favorite photo climb the CHA calendar standings?

Helping a favorite starts with the ballot's own structure. Because every entered picture already prints in the calendar, the contest is really about the featured placements, so share the entry's direct link rather than the general ballot, since the grid holds many animals. Rally the household first: votes from the people who already love the pet cost nothing and arrive fastest. Additional visits should follow whatever return rhythm the live rules allow, because the shelter publishes no per-person vote figure on its page; read the ballot itself before building a schedule around any cadence. On outside help, the shelter's page takes no stated position on paid vote services, so read what the ballot itself permits before spending anything. Readers weighing that route can compare providers on the general service overview or study organic-first methods in the votes guide; neither changes how the shelter tallies results, and no purchase alters the placement rules printed above.