Appalachian Great Pyrenees Rescue 12th Annual AGPR Calendar Photo Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the AGPR Calendar Photo Contest is and who runs it

The 12th Annual AGPR Calendar Photo Contest is a photo fundraiser run by Appalachian Great Pyrenees Rescue, a Great Pyrenees dog rescue whose headquarters sits at 8976 Battlefield Park Rd in Henrico, in the Richmond, Virginia area. The organizer brands it as an easy and fun way to help the rescue help Great Pyrenees, and its own welcome text calls the calendar contest the biggest and most beloved fundraiser of the year. That framing matters: this is a charity-driven photo ballot, not a reader's-choice ranking of local businesses.

The balloting itself runs on GoGo Photo Contest, a fundraising-ballot service that nonprofits use for paid-vote drives, and the ballot lives at gogophotocontest.com/agprescue. Everything a supporter needs, including View Entries, Prizes, Rules, and Sign In, sits in that one ballot. The copyright line on the page credits GGPC, LLC, the service operator, while the rescue owns the program and its results.

The key facts in one place:

Because the vertical is a pet calendar rather than a business ranking, the page reads differently from a typical best-of ballot: the competitors are dogs with names and personalities, and every dollar cast moves toward the rescue's operating budget.

The dated record: editions, window and results

2019 is a confirmed edition year for the program, and the current title carries the 12th Annual label, so the calendar contest has a long run behind it even though only that one edition year is pinned down here. The 2026 campaign, now closed, feeds the 2027 calendar: the ballot states that the top vote-getter is featured on the 2027 calendar cover and shares the January page, and it urges supporters to vote early and often.

The window is fully dated. Contest entry and campaign dates ran from 12:00:01 AM Eastern Time on Monday, June 22, 2026 to 8:59:59 PM Eastern Time on Sunday, July 26, 2026. Entry and voting share that single window, so there is no separate nomination round before balloting begins. The page now marks the contest as ended.

The closed campaign left hard numbers behind. The fundraising total reached 26,671 dollars, and the final leaderboard shows how the vote stacked up: Cassie led with 7,744 votes, Nonny sat second at 2,330, Beau third at 1,875, Misty Blue fourth at 1,855, Liza fifth at 1,846, and Xander sixth at 1,790. The gap between first and second, more than five thousand votes, is the clearest sign of how a paid-vote calendar ballot rewards sustained campaigning across the full five-week window.

What the organizer has not published alongside these results is the list of ballot categories and how the remaining months of the 2027 calendar were assigned; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

How a supporter votes in the AGPR calendar contest

Voting is a straightforward paid mechanic on the GoGo Photo Contest ballot. A supporter opens gogophotocontest.com/agprescue, browses the View Entries grid of Great Pyrenees photos, and selects the dog to back. Each vote costs one dollar, and the entry and donation fee schedule printed on the rules page sets that same one-dollar figure per vote alongside a per-photo entry fee. The payment is structured as a donation to Appalachian Great Pyrenees Rescue, so the money side and the vote side are the same act.

Before casting a vote, the supporter uses the Sign In link in the ballot header to create or open a GoGo Photo Contest account. The ballot runs on Eastern Time, and the 2026 window's close at 8:59:59 PM on Sunday, July 26 is the deadline the page enforces; after that point the contest is marked ended. During the live window the leaderboard updates as votes land, which is why the organizer's own advice to vote early and often points at repeated support spread across the campaign rather than a late push.

Because votes are dollar donations, a supporter's practical lever is reach: every person who visits the ballot and pays a dollar adds one vote. That makes the mechanic unusual among public ballots, where votes are free and the organizer absorbs the cost. Here the ballot is the fundraiser, and the leaderboard doubles as a donor roll for the rescue's Richmond-area community.

Where this ballot sits among Virginia's public votes

Virginia's public-vote lineup on this site is dominated by reader's-choice ballots, and the AGPR calendar contest is the odd one out. Its neighbours include Best of Arlington, the BroadwayWorld Central Virginia Awards and BroadwayWorld NOVA Awards from the theater press, Best of Coastal Virginia Magazine, Best of Charlottesville, and the Daily Progress Charlottesville Readers' Choice. Each of those is a best-of vertical ballot run by a publication, naming businesses and venues as categories.

The AGPR contest answers to a rescue organization instead, its competitors are dogs rather than restaurants or theaters, and its votes cost money because the ballot is the fundraiser. Its geography is also narrower: the program is anchored to the Richmond and Henrico headquarters of Appalachian Great Pyrenees Rescue, while the best-of siblings spread across Arlington, Charlottesville and the northern Virginia suburbs under their own publishers. A supporter who lands here after seeing a Virginia readers-choice ballot should expect a different rhythm, since the calendar prize, the dollar-per-vote fee and the single five-week summer window all differ from the fall-and-winter cycles those publications run. For a reader comparing the two shapes, the practical differences are who benefits, what a vote costs, and what the winner actually receives.

Strengthening support for an AGPR calendar entry

Because a vote here is a one-dollar gift made on the ballot, effective support in this contest looks like fundraising outreach: give your dog's ballot link to a wide circle and ask each person once, directly. The rules page prints the per-photo entry fee and the dollar-per-vote fee, and it sets no cap on how many votes one supporter may cast, so repeat giving within the rules is left to the supporter's judgment. What organizers of charity photo ballots uniformly penalize is automated voting, so keep every vote a real human transaction made on the page. The award-votes overview and the votes guide both walk through outreach patterns that suit a paid-vote calendar ballot like this one, where a dog with a broad personal network consistently outranks a dog with a devoted but small one, as the 2026 leaderboard's five-thousand-vote gap between first and second place makes plain.