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Calendar Contest

12 months of cuteness

This event boils down to a contest of the cutest, and most popular pet. Have an entry fee for folks to entry their adorable pets then have an entry fee to vote for your favorite (choose whether the first vote is free or not). Then create and sell the calendar at events and on your website.

Animal Rescue event idea for Calendar Contest
Calendar Contest: Feature

Calendar Fundraiser Examples

Fire Department partners with Animal Shelter for Calendar

The Spring Fire Department partnered with Harris County Animal Shelter of Spring, Texas to create a fun calendar to help raise money for the shelter's needs. Photos highlight animals up for adoption as well as a firefighter from the community.

Animal Refuge holds Contest for Calendar Models

Morris Animal Refuge of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, allows the public to enter their pet in their calendar photo contest. Contestants can enter by paying a $25 donation fee. Their photo will then posted and people cna vote for their favorites by donating $1. The 12 pets with the most votes will be featured in the 12-month calendar.

Engaging Businesses to Build a Calendar

A local photographer helped an Animal Rescue by getting local businesses on board to allow photo shoot of animals at their businesses then having a photo contest on facebook page where the images with the most likes were given photo sessions with the photographer. The calendars were then sold and sent out, raising over $5,000 for the rescue!

Calendar Contest: List
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