EMPOWER + EDUCATE: Support Digital Learning for Inner City Youth
April 2013 -- GLIDE is fundraising for $20,000 to purchase 24 NEW MacBook Air notebooks to replace our current units which were originally purchased in 2004. Help GLIDE's youth and children enjoy and discover a fun-filled digital learning experience through GLIDE's MacBook Learning Lab, a mobile unit which enhances our youth and children's learning in areas of literacy, nutrition, tutoring, creative arts, wellness, media awareness and digital arts.
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Help Portrait San Francisco
April 2013 -- On Saturday, December 8, 2012, thousands of photographers around the world will volunteer their time and talent for thousands in need. Help-Portrait is an international volunteer movement of photographers, make-up artists, and others that recognize how special the gift of photography is to those that would not otherwise have the opportunity or experience of sitting for a professional portrait. GLIDE hosted a local Help-Portrait event, giving community members the opportunity to receive a professional makeover and printed and framed portrait to take home as a gift. All of the participating photographers and makeup artists are from the Bay Area, and each will willingly donate their time and services to this important event.
LOVE IT!
February 14, 2013 -- Vote for GLIDE for a chance at $30,000! The Fetzer Institute is looking to recognize a non-profit organization whose work exemplifies caring, compassion, love, and forgiveness. Voting begins today, Valentine's Day, a perfect day to express your love for GLIDE and ends on February 28.
An EPIC love story shared!
February 5, 2013 -- Cecil Williams and Janice Mirikitani share both a personal love story and a riveting view of American history, Beyond the Possible: 50 Years of Radical Change in A Community Called GLIDE demonstrates what is truly possible for all of us. Books are available on sale at the GLIDE store!
American Giants: GLIDE
December 12, 2012 -- American Giant shares, "Comfortable sacrifices what's right for what's easy. Comfortable doesn't know hard work. Don't get comfortable." American Giant presents the GLIDE story, "No other organization in the world is as diverse and accepting as GLIDE, located in one of the roughest neighborhoods in San Francisco. Yet for 50 years, the Reverend Cecil Williams and Janice Mirikitani have battled to make sure no one is denied essential services like food, shelter, healthcare and many more support services and that everyone is empowered to guide their own lives."
Wells Fargo Supports GLIDE
December 07, 2012 -- Wells Fargo believes in 'people helping people.' It's not a slogan. It's not just words. It's all about action. Wells Fargo recognizes and supports the work Glide has done and continues to do, making a real difference in their communities, and in the lives of the people who live there.
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Karen Oliveto on the Mic: We're GLIDE, Y'all
December 06, 2012 -- Premiered at the GLIDE Annual Holiday Jam, it's a celebration of all the people - staff, board congregants, volunteers, guests - who embody GLIDE's values and make it such a special place. We're GLIDE, ya'll!
GLIDE's Soul Kitchen presents EMMA JEAN FOSTER FIEGE
October 25, 2012 -- Emma Jean is a beloved member of GLIDE's musical family, tells us, “Take that space it’s got your name on it… It applies to women who are going through addiction, women who do not have a clue that they have space.” Emma Jean co-facilitates The Healing Thru Negro Spirituals Drop-In support groups as well leads and teaches Negro Spirituals to the group on Wednesday afternoons for one hour at the GLIDE Women’s Center.
THE LOVE GROOVE: GLIDE Annual Holiday Jam 2011
October 24, 2012 -- Reminisce with us to December 1, 2011 at the Warfield Theatre when GLIDE featured Live Jams in Tribute to Nick Ashford with special performances by Valerie Simpson, Sheila E., Pete Escovedo, Tom Johnston from the Doobie Brothers, Maze Daiko, Larry "The Bucket Man" Hunt, POPLYFE, Jaz Sawyer, Paula West, GLIDE Ensemble and the Change Band.
GLIDE's Soul Kitchen presents VERNON BUSH
October 25, 2012 -- Vernon is a beloved member of GLIDE's musical family, "The music that I do...the music that I sing, there is a message to all of it. A lot of the words are people who come and they're brokenhearted or disenchanted, there's a lot of love and there's a lot of compassion. I'm excited about how when you come to GLIDE, you feel that connection. Inside of my music, it has that connection."
GLIDE's SOUL KITCHEN presents Jaz Sawyer
August 27, 2012 -- Jaz is a beloved member of GLIDE's musical family, "I started playing drums at GLIDE with my first performance at 2! For several years, I was part of the youth choir and served as a Music Coach at the Janice Mirikitani Family, Youth and Childcare Center from 2001-2002 and began again in 2008 till the present working with the Youth Choir and Family Music Workshops at the Cecil Williams GLIDE Community House.
TENDERLENS
August 17, 2012 -- TenderLens is the result of two GLIDE Emerging Leaders interns' passion for storytelling, history, and photography. The project became a process for GLIDE's program participants to explore the Tenderloin with cameras, defining what this space means to them through images and writing.
GLIDE: Celebrating Legacy
July 26, 2012 -- Premiered at the 3rd Annual GLIDE Legacy Gala: A LOVE Supreme, GLIDE Legacy Committee asks, What's your Legacy? San Francisco wouldn’t be the city we recognize today without the amazing contributions of this Tenderloin destination. For nearly five decades, GLIDE has been there to help San Francisco’s poor and homeless communities overcome their struggles and change their lives! From transformation to celebration, people in need come together and find love, food, shelter and inspiration. GLIDE's mission is to create a radically inclusive, just and loving community mobilized to alleviate suffering and break the cycles of poverty and marginalization.