Opportunities From: Goodman Community Center

Learn how to teach elementary-age youth to read as a trained tutor. Goodman Community Center is offering a tutoring program that teams adult tutors with elementary youth. Teams of adults and youth will work to improve the young person‘s reading skills, with support from our Goodman Literacy Specialist.

This program runs for a total of 13 weeks, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 3-5pm. Fall semester starts up during the 2nd week of September. 

Sessions are broken into two chapters (see below):

Chapter 1: For the first 5 weeks, all new tutors attend a Science of Reading evidence-based training where they learn to use toolboxes of literacy resources and activities (before tutor sessions begin). 

Chapter 2: The next 8 weeks (following the training) volunteers tutor elementary students in an after school "Lit Club." 

All tutors are assigned to a tutor team that provides continued coaching and support.

Ideal tutors and enthusiastic about reading and literacy and are available for the listed 6 hours per week.

If interested, please indicate interest on this link. NOTE: our spring semester roster is now full. If you are interested in helping out during a future semester, please respond to this opportunity and you will hear back from us in the coming months. 

Our middle and high school programs could always use extra hands with facilitating activities and homework help.

If interested in helping out in our Middle or Afterschool program, please respond to this opportunity and send an email or add a comment, answering these questions- 

- What days of the week would be best for you

- Why do you want to help with these programs?

- Have you worked with this age group before?

-Anything else we should know before meeting to discuss further?

Our Program Kitchen prepares, cooks & distributes hundreds of meals per day, Monday through Fridays.

These meals feed our youth programs, Older Adult Programs, Meals on Wheels Program as well as some other offsite partners.  We are looking for some extra hands in the kitchen on Thursdays, from about 12:30pm-4pm.

Tasks would include- Food Prep, dishwashing and some cleanup. 

As volunteer opportunities may fill up quickly, if you are interested, please respond to this opportunity and reach out to Abigail at abigail@goodmancenter.org OR 608-204-8048. Please allow for up to a few business days to hear back. If it feels like a good fit, we will have you fill out some paperwork and set up an official orientation before we get you started.  Thanks for your interest!

Our Middle School program is looking for volunteers who have STEM expertise and would be willing to facilitate weekly activities. Activities could vary from drone-flying classes to experiments to anything else that a volunteer may have expertise in. Summer programs run mid June through August, during the day. 

Volunteers should have background in some sort of STEM-related field and interest and/or experience working with Middle School aged youth. 

Interested? Please respond to this opportunity and you will hear from someone, sometime in April!

Our Meals on Wheels program prepares and packages meals for nearly 300 Older Adults per day. We have both morning shifts and afternoon shifts that are generally filled by regular volunteers, but anywhere from once every two weeks, to twice per week, we are seeking someone who could serve as a substitute when our regular volunteers are out for vacations, appointments, etc. 

We are looking for both regular/weekly volunteers and substitutes. 

Substitute Volunteers would get a weekly email, informing them of the upcoming shifts that we need help filling. 

Interested volunteers must be flexible, comfortable working with food and comfortable working with a small, but strong team. If interested, please respond to this opportunity and you will hear from our volunteer manager, shortly. 

Our Older adult program is looking for someone to help out with designing and creating monthly lunch menus, monthly activities calendars and occasional flyers on Canva. 

Volunteers should- 

- Have experience with designing in Microsoft Word

- Have their own access to Microsoft Word

- Have experience in designing simple flyers in Canva

- Have access to their own computer/device

Work can be done from home, or in person at the Goodman Center. 

Hours would range from 2-5 hours per month, including 1 monthly check in with Older Adult program staff to review materials before printing. Scheduling is very flexible, however, there would be regular deadlines towards the end of the month. 

Role would ideally start in late spring/early summer and go, eat least until January 2027. 

Interested? Please respond to this opportunity and you will hear from us in the coming weeks. 

The Older Adult program is seeking a volunteer who can help out with attendance and data entry. 

The volunteer should be comfortable using attendance entry software as well as excel and will need to be able to stop at goodman at least once per week to pick up physical attendance and registration forms to be entered.

Volunteer must also be comfortable handling confidential information. 

Estimated timeline of role- 

Volunteer will start by meeting with our current data volunteer to learn the ropes of the software and the systems in place to enter and update data.

Volunteer will then, eventually, take over a portion of the work and possibly, at some point, take over all work.

 Once volunteer takes on work, they will meet with our program staff on a monthly basis to ensure all data is entered before monthly reporting is due. 

If interested, please respond to this opportunity and email abby at abigail@goodmancenter.org

We are looking for a volunteer who can serve as a 1:1 technology helper on Mondays from 10am-Noon in our Older Adult Program. 

What would this entail?- you would have a 2 hour block, in person at Goodman, where Older adults can sign up for 30 minute timeslots to work with you to get questions answered. Questions vary from how to block scam emails to how to upload new photos to and from a device. 

Ideal volunteers are available on Mondays, 10am-Noon, are comfortable working with Older Adults and have some experience in technology, cell phones, utilizing the internet to help troubleshoot technology-related questions, etc. 

If interested, please respond to this opportunity and you will hear from us soon.