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

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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Support the Fritz Food Pantry

With the uncertainty caused by disruptions to SNAP funding on top of an ongoing crisis of food insecurity, the Fritz Food Pantry has been seeing record levels of need. Your donations of food or funds help keep our pantry stocked and ensure that all of our friends and neighbors have access to high-quality food. Learn more about the pantry and how to give..

Give to the pantry

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.

Upcoming Activities

Center CLOSED due to hazardous weather

Mar 16, 2026

Goodman Community Center campus and all programs and events will be CLOSED on Monday, March 16, due to hazardous weather conditions. This includes the fitness center, childcare, and all meal programs. For alternative service sources, please call 211. Please take care, keep warm, and stay safe. We look forward to seeing you back at the center when we reopen on Tuesday.

Older Adults, Teens, Families, Children, Fitness, Food, Community, Older Adult Fitness

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TUESDAY Recurring Older Adult Activities

Mar 17, 2026

This is a general recurring schedule. Last minute activity changes can be found on the whiteboard near the Ironworks front desk. Ask the front desk or older adult program staff for more info on any of these activities.

Older Adults

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