glide.org

# GLIDE Foundation

> GLIDE – San Francisco: serving the people of the Tenderloin and San Francisco since 1963 – GLIDE offers individual and collective transformation through compassionate, sustained, comprehensive care to all in need.

## About

GLIDE is a nationally recognized center for social justice, dedicated to fighting systemic injustices, creating pathways out of poverty and crisis, and transforming lives. Through our integrated comprehensive services, advocacy initiatives, and inclusive community, we empower individuals, families, and children to achieve stability and thrive. GLIDE is on the forefront of addressing poverty, housing and homelessness, and racial and social justice. GLIDE’s mission is to create a radically inclusive, just, and loving community mobilized to alleviate suffering and break cycles of poverty.

## Key Information

- [Home Page](https://glide.org): Mission overview, news, and impact stories
- [Donate](https://glide.org/give): Make a tax-deductible gift
- [Programs](https://glide.org/programs): Full list of services, eligibility, and enrollment
- [Volunteer](https://glide.org/volunteer): Join our team of active volunteers
- [Events](https://glide.org/events): Upcoming fundraisers and community gatherings
- [Annual Report](https://glide.org/financials-annual-reports): Financial transparency and annual impact data
- [Careers](https://glide.org/careers): Open positions at the Foundation

## Programs

- Welcome Center: The GLIDE Walk-In Center provides crisis intervention services and helps people meet their basic needs immediately. We provide assistance in obtaining shelter, hygiene kits and other critical needs in an atmosphere of respect and compassion for all.
- The Shop!: A barbershop located in the TL, serving as a safe, therapeutic space for all. Our model combines professional barber services with health education, active listening, and direct linkages to care. Our goal is to combat overdose fatalities, substance abuse, mental health struggles, and social isolation by leveraging the trusted, community-building role of a barbershop.
- Journey Home Reunification & Relocation Program: The Journey Home program provides relocation support to anyone who wants to reconnect with loved ones and a stable destination outside San Francisco. The San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing and GLIDE work together to help with travel planning, coordination, and follow-up, ensuring each participant’s journey is safe, voluntary, and supported every step of the way.  The new program brings together previous efforts, including Homeward Bound and Problem Solving, under a single citywide system. 
- Daily Free Meals: GLIDE offers the city’s only free meals program in San Francisco providing three nutritious meals a day, 364 days a year, to the one-in-four San Franciscans facing food insecurity. Food insecurity affects one in four San Franciscans. What began in 1969 as a weekly volunteer-run potluck for 50 people now serves approximately 1,700 meals a day.
- Transitional Age Youth Health and Wellness Center (TAY Center): The Transitional Age Youth Health and Wellness Center (TAY Center) is a welcoming place, open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for young adults ages 18 to 27 who are facing homelessness or housing instability in San Francisco.
- Family, Youth and Childcare Center (FYCC): A safe, culturally diverse environment for children and families providing licensed childcare, afterschool and summer programs, and a family resource center to help people realize their potential at home, in school and in their community.
- Family Resource Center (FRC): Offers groups and programming in the mornings, afternoons and some evenings (including virtually). Case Management offered onsite by appointment. Services include Parenting Classes & Support Groups, Perinatal Services & Support, & Child Development Workshops.
- GLIDE Women's Center: GLIDE’s Women’s Center in San Francisco uses a trauma-informed care approach to help women heal in a safe and supportive environment. We provide a compassionate community where survivors can find connection, resources, and the support they need to rebuild their lives.
- Health Empowerment & Access Team (HEAT): The Health Empowerment & Access Team is dedicated to empowering individuals and improving health outcomes for people with substance use and/or mental health concerns, many of whom are homeless or marginally housed.
- The Cecil Williams Community Ambassador Program: As part of GLIDE’s mobile integrated services program, our ambassadors take immediate action to improve safety, cleanliness, service connections, and community well-being.
- Community Yoga Program: Glide Memorial Church offers free yoga classes designed to promote physical well-being, inner calm, and emotional resilience. Open to all levels, these classes focus on mindful movement, breath awareness, and building strength.

## Glide Memorial Church

- Congregational Life Groups: GLIDE Memorial Church Congregational Life Groups empower individuals and communities to share ideas and turn the Church’s message of love into positive action in the world.
- Glide Ensemble: The GLIDE Ensemble sing, play, clap and sway, spreading the spirit of empowerment in an infectious message of diversity, acceptance and love.
- Restoration of GMC: Is a Building Fund that will support vital upgrades, including seismic safety and accessibility, and historic beauty, ensuring that GMC’s life changing programs continue to serve our community for the next 100 years.
- Glide Pride Team: The GLIDE Pride Team’s mission is to educate the world on social justice, unconditional love, and acceptance of the LGBTQ+ community. We take pride in leading Glide’s efforts in promoting equal justice for LGBTQ+-related causes, supporting community organizations in the greater San Francisco area and other Glide community groups.
- Our Mission Vision and Values: Glide Memorial Church believes and practices a Christianity where all people and all beliefs are welcomed. 

## Center for Social Justice

- Center for Social Justice: Founded in 2013, CSJ influences public policy and changes public perception around poverty, discrimination, civil and human rights. We do this through thought leadership, policy development, grassroots organizing, education, and legal action.
- Immigration Resources: Your advocacy.
- Unconditional Legal Clinic: A volunteer lawyer for your legal consultation.
- Become a Justice Warrior: Justice Warriors engage community, clients, and staff to advocate and uplift the voices of historically marginalized communities and move GLIDE’s policy agenda forward through direct action.
- GLIDE Social Justice Academy (SJA): The Social Justice Academy serves as a community learning center, catalyzing the wisdom and expertise of those impacted by systemic inequities.
- Transformative Programs: The Center for Social Justice’s transformative programs revolve around deep and soulful introspective discussions, workshops, and experiences that inspire participants to become truth seekers and truth tellers in our world. 

## Ways to Give

- Online donations at glide.org/give
- Donate to GLIDE Foundation (any amount or monthly)
- Donate to GLIDE Memorial Church (any amount or monthly)
- Mail & Phone Donations
- Stock & Securities
- Tribute Donations
- Corporate Partners
- Foundation Partners
- Legacy Giving
- Donate your Vehicle
- In-Kind Contributions

## Contact

- Website: https://glide.org
- Email: info@glide.org
- Phone: (415) 674-6001
- Address: 330 Ellis St., San Francisco, CA., 94102
- EIN: 94-1156481