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. Spring semester runs January 27- April 30th, 2026. 

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 AND either call 608-204-8048 OR email abigail@goodmancenter.org. 

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!

The Goodman Center’s food pantry is experiencing a rise in demand, and we need your help! We’re looking for new volunteers to join our team so we can continue providing the best possible service to our community. We offer a variety of shifts — some focused on stocking shelves and organizing donations, and others that involve supporting customers while they shop. Please review the available shifts below and respond if there is one that works for you (Volunteers should be available mostly on a weekly basis).  You will be contacted to set up a time for an initial meeting. If you end up being on the waitlist, we will keep you in mind for the future. 

Tuesdays | 10:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.- Support customers during pantry shopping and assist with cleanup. As more families visit our pantry, we need friendly volunteers to help customers shop and enforce pantry policies. You’ll also restock shelves and help clean up after shopping hours — including sweeping, wiping down surfaces, washing bins, and bringing grocery carts inside.

Wednesdays| 12:45 p.m.–3 p.m.- Support customers during pantry shopping and assist with cleanup.  Similar to the Tuesday shift, volunteers will help customers during shopping hours, enforce policies, restock shelves, and assist with cleanup afterward.

Thursdays | 1:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m.- Support customers during pantry shopping and assist with cleanup.  Similar to the Tuesday shift, volunteers will help customers during shopping hours, enforce policies, restock shelves, and assist with cleanup afterward.

Thank you for helping the Goodman Center continue to serve our community with care and compassion!

Our Meals on Wheels program prepares and packages meals for nearly 300 Older Adults per day. Mornings involve dishing and sealing hot meals and afternoons involve packing cold lunch bags that get delivered with the hot food, the following day. 

We are looking for 2 kinds of volunteers-

If interested in being a regular/weekly volunteer- we are looking for folks to help, weekly, on Mondays, Wednesdays or Thursdays from 12-3pm. 

If interested in being a sub- 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. 

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 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. 

We are looking for a few volunteers who are bilingual in English/Spanish to help in our Food Pantry. Our pantry serves around 350 households per week. Family size, income, circumstances and languages vary. Our pantry is mostly a choice-model, meaning customers get to shop through and choose their items, but also follow limits. 

Duties would include- working our produce market, helping shoppers/enforcing limits, checking people in, working our rapid pantry, etc. 

Days we are looking for- Tuesdays 9am-Noon and Thursdays Noon-3pm. 

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

Our Senior Mealsite serves meals to an average of 50 people, each weekday. We are looking volunteers for both Wednesdays and Thursdays from 11:30-2pm.

Tasks would include- 

- Being involved with serving lunch

- Lunch cleanup- bussing tables, helping with dishwashing, wiping tables, taking down table settings, etc. 

Volunteers have to be comfortable with being on their feet for 2.5 hours, handling dirty dishes and interacting with our customers/participants. 

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