Goodman Community Center

We strengthen lives and secure futures – with your help!

The Goodman Center has been here for our community for 70 years, and with you in our corner, we'll be around for another 70 (and then some!). We serve people ages 3 to 103 with our children and youth programs, older adult activities and meals, food pantry, fitness center, event spaces and more. Take a look around and see what we're all about, and then get in touch. We'd love to hear from you!

A woman stacking a can on top of a pyramid of canned foods

Laura Zastrow Photography

Food Donations Needed

Your donations are a HUGE help in keeping our Fritz Food Pantry shelves stocked. Please bring nonperishable food, paper and plastic grocery bags or personal care items to our Ironworks building during our normal hours.

View our most needed items

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

August Halbach

Boys in MENS Club discover freedom in defining masculinity for themselves

Goodman partners with DAIS to offer MENS — Men Encouraging Non-violent Strength — Club in local schools together.

By Letesha Nelson, GCC president and executive director

For decades, Goodman Community Center has offered girls and young women the nationally renowned Girls Inc. program. It delivers on their mission — it’s helped countless girls become strong, smart and bold. What do we have to offer boys and young men? GCC has had a popular, locally grown boys club for decades, but it’s been at its best the last couple of years.

That’s when Goodman started partnering with Domestic Abuse Intervention Services to offer its evidence-based program, MENS — Men Encouraging Non-violent Strength — Club in local schools together. It provides a safe space where 10-12 boys in middle and high school meet to support each other in their journey to manhood.