Goodman Community Center

We strengthen lives and secure futures – with your help!

Created by the community, for the community

The Goodman Center has been here for over 70 years, and — with you in our corner — will be around for another 70 and more! The center serves people ages 3 to 103 through programs for children and youth, older adult activities and meals, a food pantry, a fitness center, a community newspaper, event spaces and more.

Be the Good Fundraising Dinner

Friday, May 8, 5:00pm

Celebrate the power of community at the Be the Good Fundraising Dinner, an evening designed to nourish, delight and connect. Enjoy a multicourse dinner prepared and served by talented TEENworks participants, and hear from teens, staff, and community members about the real impact your support is making in our neighborhood.

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Community Chat: Meet GCC's New President, Christopher Talton

The public is invited to join Goodman Community Center for a casual gathering to meet our new president, Christopher Talton. Please join us for light refreshments and conversation at one of the following times:

Tuesday, May 19 at 5:30 pm
Thursday, May 21 at 9:00 am

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Older Adults

Check out what's happening with our Older Adult Program.

Food Pantry

Our pantry is open Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Children & Teens

Learn more about summer at the Goodman Center for kids ages 3-19.

Eastside News Cover Story

Rick Dahms

An ugly past lingers

Community efforts are underway to denounce racist language in property deeds

By Dave Link and Katie Pulvermacher, Eastside News

Although racially restrictive covenants were declared illegal in 1968, evidence shows these covenants still have a lingering legacy in property records in Madison and Dane County. Racial covenants once were a common way of preventing property sales to nonwhite people 20th century.

A Dane County project, Prejudice in Places, has been helping identify and confirm restrictive language in real estate records by using mapping. There are also ways to implement denouncement documents — legal documents that declare the termination of an agreement — through events at local libraries.