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GLIDE’s Toy Bag Giveaway delivers 2,400 toys to children across the Tenderloin
The winter holiday season means sharing quality time with friends, handing out gifts, singing songs of joy, and lighting candles. It also means collecting, packing, and putting approximately 2,400 toys into nearly 400 bags for distribution to underprivileged children throughout the Tenderloin!
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Support GLIDE Families by donating new, unwrapped toys for our annual Toy Wonderland!
On December 21, GLIDE will collect toys, packing them into bags and distributing them to children (up to 11 years) who are enrolled in GLIDE programs. We are now collecting toys through our Amazon toy-drive registry. Please help us make this year’s Toy Wonderland a memorable one for the children by donating today! Interesting in […]
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Gratitude and GLIDE Make for a very Happy Thanksgiving!
Thanksgiving was back indoors at GLIDE and our Daily Free Meals Program delivered the goods by anticipating the full rush of hungry diners and serving 2,400 + meals, along with 240 meals delivered by our Harm Reduction team. Thanks to our many volunteers (including an appearance by San Francisco motorcycle club Kings of Cali) and […]
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A Harvest Dinner “On the Go”
No amount of rainy weather can stop GLIDE when it comes to feeding our community a week before Thanksgiving. GLIDE’s Family Resource Center (FRC) hosted it’s annual (and eagerly anticipated) Harvest Dinner this past November 16, which traditionally kicks off the start of GLIDE’s holiday season. A delicious package of roast turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, […]
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End Poverty Tows Coalition calls for safe parking and affordable housing
A community of families with children, students, and seniors who cannot afford the Bay Area’s high rents are living in RVs near Lake Merced. This community is facing the threat of 4-hour parking restrictions, which will require them to leave work or school to regularly move their vehicles or face ticketing and towing. Implementing the new parking restrictions without anywhere else to go will push families deeper into instability and homelessness.
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Now Open: 60 Years of GLIDE History on Public Display in Unique Exhibit
Doors opened Sunday, October 15, to a first-of-its-kind historical exhibit encapsulating 60 years of GLIDE history under the leadership of Rev. Cecil Williams and Janice Mirikitani.
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GLIDE’s Building Modernization Plan: Preparing for the next 60 years
Sixty years ago, a young Black minister named Cecil Williams arrived at GLIDE, determined to breathe life into a dying church. Cecil’s arrival served as an awakening for GLIDE, inspired by his spiritual training in Black liberation theology and his lived experience growing up in the Jim Crow South. He saw the connection between systems […]
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GLIDE’s 2023 Holiday Jam: Keep On, A Night to Remember
2023 has marked a major milestone for GLIDE on so many fronts, including a return to community that has uplifted the Tenderloin and all of San Francisco. Beginning in July with our return to indoor dining service, we’ve since expanded our Legal Clinic services, to both online and in-person; we received a $1M check from […]
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GLIDE’s Statement on the Middle East
The GLIDE Foundation and Glide Memorial Church extend our deepest sympathy to those grieving and impacted by the escalating violence and the heinous acts of terror against innocent people.
Read More >>GLIDE celebrates Assemblymember Matt Haney and a $1M milestone
It is with great joy that our GLIDE family warmly welcomed Matt Haney on September 25 to thank him for his support of a $1 million allocation in the State budget to fund GLIDE’s modernization project!
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GLIDE Community Comes Together with SFPD
“If we can’t sit down and talk, we don’t have much of a chance to change the dynamic. No one wants to come to work and use a firearm.” — San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) Police Chief Bill Scott On August 28th, there was an Officer involved shooting in the Tenderloin neighborhood. GLIDE believes in coming […]
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Party For A Cause And Come To GLIDE’s 14th Annual Legacy Gala!
In 2009 a small group of compassionate young entrepreneurs came together at GLIDE to inspire a new audience of young professionals across the San Francisco/ Bay Area about GLIDE’s mission to alleviate suffering and break the cycles of poverty and marginalization.
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GLIDE welcomes USDA for roundtable discussion on racial equity and food security
GLIDE’s Center for Social Justice Director Dr. Holly Joshi (far right) hosts a roundtable discussion with representatives from local food organizations and the USDA June 15th, 2023 GLIDE’s presence in the Tenderloin acts as a pivotal haven of hope not just for Black residents but LGTBQIA2S+, those with disabilities, new immigrants, and anyone who has […]
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Juneteenth: An affirmation of liberation, justice, equality and the power of love
Dear GLIDE Community, Celebrating Juneteenth renews our hope for change and our commitment to creating a more equitable society where everyone belongs and thrives. It is a joyous moment to witness our country’s leaders agreeing to declare Juneteenth a federal holiday. This significant development reflects progress towards a more meaningful understanding of the Black […]
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Zero Waste Pantry: Building Sustainable Futures
Zero Waste Food Pantry: Building Sustainable Futures GLIDE’s Foundation’s Zero Waste Food Pantry is a vital program that prioritizes providing nutritious food to families with limited access. Our program serves low-income families with children aged 17 and under. Each week, between 70 to 75 individuals with families select from a list of food items. The […]
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Improving Digital Literacy in the Asian American Community
Improving Digital Literacy in the Asian-American Community at GLIDE How do I connect to Wifi? Where do I access email? What is Google search? Questions that sound so rudimentary to us but to seniors who’ve been left out of the digital revolution seem remote and complicated. For older adults, 65+, the importance of being able […]
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Discuss The Riders Come Out at Night with authors Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham and GLIDE’s Center for Social Justice
April 27, 20236:00 pmRegister for free for this virtual event. Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham illuminate American police culture and the struggle for reform by using Oakland as a case study. Through the lens of the city’s police department, the authors trace Oakland’s history from its inception through the Palmer Raids, McCarthyism, the Civil Rights […]
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Raising $500 to distribute lunches when you are 14?
(Landon To holding lunches to be distributed outside of GLIDE) What do you say about a 14-year-old GLIDE volunteer who applied for a grant JUST to help our organization feed the hungry? SIMPLY AMAZING! And that’s exactly what San Francisco native and GLIDE volunteer Landon To accomplished (with a little help from mom, Dina). Dina […]
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Women’s History Month: Join us in creating a world that celebrates and invests in women
During this Women’s History Month, we lift up and affirm the importance of gender justice in our work and celebrate the powerful impact of women leaders at GLIDE working to create a world where everyone thrives. We know that fighting for women’s economic empowerment, reproductive rights and equality is fundamental to achieving our mission: to create a radically inclusive, just and loving community, mobilized to alleviate suffering and break the cycles of poverty and marginalization
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SFPD set to curtail pretext stops
Many of us know the names: Sandra Bland, Daunte Wright, Philando Castile, Walter Scott, Sam DuBose. They are just a few of the hundreds of Americans across the country who have been killed by police during a traffic stop. In many of these cases, police had stopped the victim using a practice called “pretext stops” — pulling someone over for a minor traffic or equipment violation and then using that stop to conduct an unrelated speculative criminal investigation, not for the purpose of enforcing the traffic code.
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