DREAM Partnership's George Nahodil Excellence in Peer Mentorship Award: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the George Nahodil Excellence in Peer Mentorship Award and who runs it?

DREAM Partnership, a Pennsylvania nonprofit working in peer mentorship, presents the George Nahodil Excellence in Peer Mentorship Award as its signature individual honor. The ballot for it sits on GoGo Photo Contest, whose own homepage bills the service as "The #1 Donate-To-Vote Fundraising Platform", and the award page footer carries a 2026 copyright notice in the name of GGPC, LLC. The contest header describes itself plainly as a "Fundraiser for DREAM Partnership", so participation doubles as support for the nonprofit's mission.

The namesake

The award's name honors George Nahodil, whom the ballot page introduces as someone who "has been a believer of D.R.E.A.M. Partnership since our formation". Where the magazine readers' polls that dominate Pennsylvania's contest scene spread many categories across a metro, this ballot exists to recognize a single kind of excellence, peer mentorship, and to raise money while doing it. That shape matters for supporters: attention concentrates on a short entry list rather than a sprawling category grid, and the outcome feeds directly into the nonprofit's fall ceremony rather than a year-round branding exercise for local businesses.

Item	Detail
Organizer	DREAM Partnership
Ballot host	GoGo Photo Contest
Ballot address	gogophotocontest.com/dreampartnership
Home base	Camp Hill, Pennsylvania
Format	Single-award public vote fundraiser
Honor	Cash award plus an appearance at the fall event

When does voting run, and which editions of the award exist?

The award's ballot has surfaced in two consecutive springs. Cycles are confirmed for 2025 and 2026; nothing on the page yet commits the nonprofit to a 2027 round, though the pattern points that way. Within the 2026 cycle the sequence ran from the spring ballot to a fall ceremony: the cash award was presented at the annual Living the DREAM Event on September 17, 2026 in Camp Hill, PA, and the winner "should be prepared to speak at the event" about the mentoring work behind the honor. A link beside the voting dates invites readers to learn more about D.R.E.A.M., pointing past the ballot toward the nonprofit's own background material. By the time the 2026 ballot wrapped, its header switched to "Contest has ended.", so visitors arriving now see a closed contest rather than an active form. What the page leaves out matters as much as what it prints: DREAM Partnership has not published a nominee roster, a per-supporter vote limit or an eligibility policy for the award; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Stage	When	Notes
Spring ballot	April 2026	Live voting window on the dreampartnership address
Fall ceremony	September 17, 2026	Living the DREAM Event, Camp Hill
Prior cycles	2025	Earlier edition on the same ballot address
Next round	2027	Not yet committed by the organizer

How does a supporter cast a vote on the dreampartnership ballot?

The mechanics are simple to find. At gogophotocontest.com/dreampartnership the menu across the top offers Participate, View Entries, Rules, About DREAM and Sign In. A newcomer picks View Entries to see the nominee entries standing on DREAM Partnership's award page, selects the entry to back and follows whatever prompts the form shows next. Every timestamp on the page is displayed in Eastern Time, so supporters outside that zone should translate deadlines themselves.

Accounts and giving

A Sign In link sits at the top of the ballot; whether casting a vote demands an account is not spelled out anywhere on the page. Because the host markets itself around donate-to-vote fundraising, some connection between voting and giving is likely, but the exact relationship, whether a gift is required per vote or simply encouraged alongside it, is not printed either. Once voting closes, the page flips to a contest-ended banner until the next cycle loads, which is why off-season visits show history rather than a working form.

How does this fundraiser award compare with Pennsylvania's best-of ballots?

Six other Pennsylvania ballots sit nearby in the same contest family, all in the best-of vertical: Best of Berks from Berks County Living Magazine, Best of Philly from Philadelphia Magazine, Best of the 'Burgh, Best of the Lehigh Valley from Lehigh Valley Style, the Bucks County & Chester County Readers' Choice from suburban newspapers, and Erie Reader Best of Erie. Those ballots share a template: a metro or regional publisher invites readers to crown favorites across many businesses and services at once, usually with rounds stretching across a season.

Where the Nahodil award differs

The George Nahodil award breaks that mold in several ways. Its publisher is a nonprofit rather than a media outlet; its ballot carries a single honor instead of a category grid; its home base is Camp Hill rather than a large metro; and its calendar pairs an April public vote with a September ceremony. For a supporter, that changes the calculus entirely. Momentum concentrates on a handful of entries instead of dispersing across dozens of categories, a strong showing has a visible payoff in front of the nonprofit's community, and the fundraising purpose means every interaction on the page also serves DREAM Partnership's mission rather than a publisher's advertising book.

How can supporters build momentum for a nominee before the close?

A single-award ballot rewards concentrated outreach. Supporters hoping to lift an entry during the April voting stretch do best treating the ballot link as the centerpiece of every message they send: the dreampartnership address goes straight into texts, emails and group chats, because anyone arriving cold has to find the entry list before anything else. Because this award recognizes peer mentorship specifically, outreach that names a concrete mentoring moment gives recipients a reason to choose one entry over another, which counts for more on a short single-award ballot than broad name recognition. Before leaning on outside help, read the Rules tab; DREAM Partnership has not printed its position on solicited or purchased participation, and that tab is the only authority positioned to state it. General tactics for public votes, from reminder cadence to social posts, are covered in this guide to earning more votes online, and the options described on the award-ballot service page show what paid support looks like for contests shaped like this. Neither route substitutes for a speech-worthy story: the winner is expected to speak at the September ceremony, which favors nominees with real mentoring outcomes to describe.