• To submit your pet's photo, a minimum $20 donation is required. This amount will enter your photo into the contest plus give you 5 votes. The entry fee will be included in the overall funds donated to your campaign.
• Each dollar donated to a pet's campaign represents one vote. Minimum 5 votes ($5) required to vote in contest.
• All donations (votes) must be submitted online and are final.
   

• The 1st place winner (photo with the most votes) will have their pet's photo featured on the cover of The Inaugural Greater New Haven Literary Pets Wall Calendar 2025 plus on the month of their choice, and will receive one free calendar.
• The next 11 winners will have their photos featured on one month of the calendar, and will receive one free calendar.
• Bonus Prize: We will be awarding an extra-large Boundless Literacy Sweatshirt to the pet with the most votes at 8:00 PM on 06/08/2024!
  
  

Photos Must:

• Be high resolution (300 dpi)
• Files should be saved as JPGs, minimum file size 4MB
• Be vertically formatted
• Be in color
• Contain only pets (no people). Photos can contain more than one pet.
• Pets should be photographed in a "literary pose" (e.g., positioned near a book, in a library or book store, etc.)
• Entries must be submitted and paid for online. You may submit as many entries as you like, for a minimum donation of $20 each. However, if friends or family members are encouraged to spread their votes out over multiple campaigns, this will reduce the chance of each pet photo winning a prize in the contest.

Things to consider when choosing your photo:

• Please choose a photo with the highest resolution possible. Only photos able to be printed 5x7 inches and vertical in format will be considered for inclusion in the winners' calendar.
• Any image that includes people, or content that is deemed inappropriate, indecent or obscene will be removed from the Photo Fundraiser.
• Photographs may not be edited or altered (other than minor color, contrast, or sharpness adjustments).
• Photographs must either feature pets owned by the entrant, OR the entrant must have permission from the pet's owner to submit their pet's image.
• No hard copy entries will be accepted. You must enter your photo(s) via gogophotocontest.com

Tips to Help You Become a Winner:

• Use the social media links within the contest to promote your pet to your friends and family, and encourage them to share on their pages as well! Remember, the more people who know about your entry, the more likely you are to win!
• Create business cards with your direct link to pass out wherever you go over the 4 week campaign period! Sites like Vistaprint offer specials all the time, so be on the lookout!
• Consider a campaign party or get together at your home, or at a local pub or restaurant to raise money!
• And finally, the most important thing you can do to increase donations to your entry is to remind people that every vote supports Boundless Literacy which provides skilled literacy instruction in under-served districts in Connecticut ! We rely on donations from our community for the success of our programs. Thank you for your support—we couldn't do it without you!
  
  

• By entering this contest, you grant Boundless Literacy the right to use and distribute this photograph in the calendar and on social media to promote the contest. By entering this contest, you grant Boundless Literacy  a royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive license to use, publish, display, distribute, reproduce, edit, adapt, and create derivative works of the submitted photograph, in whole or in part, in any media now known or hereafter developed or discovered, including in use on websites, in publications and for promotional purposes, without compensation or prior notice to you or your successors or assigns, or any other person or entity.

Boundless Literacy provides daily, small-group, evidence-based reading instruction to students with reading deficits in Connecticut's districts of opportunity. Our aim is to serve students for whom this intensive, multisensory instruction is critical, thereby helping these children become proficient readers over time. Boundless Literacy joins the efforts of public schools and families in furthering literacy education.

Literacy is a gateway to improved lives.

Children who learn to read in school have vastly improved academic experiences and outcomes. Reading builds knowledge and language skills. It fosters empathy and facilitates a deeper understanding of our world and its complexity.

Literacy empowers kids to navigate the modern world and to contribute meaningfully to our shared communities.

Finally, Literacy is an equity issue. All children deserve the right to learn to read. As Kareem Weaver of the NAACP puts it, "There can be no equity, no social justice, without literacy."