More Than 50 Years of Unconditional Love
GLIDE has been serving the people of the Tenderloin and San Francisco since 1963. As a social justice movement, social service provider and spiritual community, GLIDE offers individual and collective transformation through compassionate, sustained, comprehensive care to all in need.
On a Mission to Alleviate Suffering & Stabilize Lives
GLIDE reaches those most in need, providing food, housing assistance, healthcare, and family services. We meet basic needs, stabilize lives, create pathways out of poverty, and work for systemic change. Our work is grounded in our values of radical inclusivity, unconditional love, truth telling, and celebration. We work on the front lines of poverty, look everyone in the eye, turn no one away, and transform lives.
Take Part in GLIDE Today!
You make the difference. Choose from the many ways you can get involved in GLIDE’s mission today.
Donate to GLIDE
Your charitable dollars provide services for individuals and families in dire need and support our efforts to make lasting changes.
Serve a Meal
Join the family of over 10,000 volunteers who dedicate their time to feeding the needy each year.
Fight HIV & Hep C
Join our Harm Reduction team in mitigating the harms of drug use through needle exchange, HIV & Hep C testing and education.
Help Children & Families
Give time to our Family, Youth & Childcare Center and see the smiles that your caring inspires.
Corporate and Foundation Partners
Learn about the ways in which your organization can support GLIDE.
Sunday Celebration
Join our joyous community gathering for music and social and spiritual uplift every Sunday at 9:00 and 11:00 am (also broadcast online).
Attend an Event
Take part in year-round festivities, or drop in for yoga, meditation, workgroups, bible study and more.
Your dollars go directly to those in need.
Our holistic service model alleviates the suffering and stabilizes the lives of individuals and families in dire need. Each dollar goes toward making a real difference in their lives.
Doing good feels good!
From serving meals to saving lives, you can join our community of people who are using their time to make a real difference.
Famous Sunday Celebrations at 9:00 and 11:00 AM.
Our joyful weekly gatherings welcome everyone into community with rousing gospel music, empowering voices and messages of hope.
Standing together for change.
Our grassroots organizing is geared to making significant and lasting improvements in policy at all levels of government on issues of poverty and civil rights.
Help is only a click away!
We are here for all individuals and families challenged by poverty, homelessness, hunger, drug use and more. Find out how we can help.
GLIDE Voices
Meet members of the GLIDE community through their stories and testimonials.
GLIDE News
Something noteworthy is always happening at GLIDE. Keep up on our latest endeavors.
A Brief History of GLIDE’s World Famous Fried Chicken
Fifty years ago, congregants from GLIDE Church organized a potluck for their hungry neighbors in the Tenderloin. Their pastor, Rev. Cecil Williams, GLIDE’s Co-founder and Minister of Liberation, requested fried chicken—a staple of any festive gathering in the African American community of his youth. That’s the origin of what has come to be known as
Read FullOn Practitioners and Practice – A Celebration Sermon
Whenever someone within my faith tradition has overcome something that seemed otherwise insurmountable, has been cured from something that had death as the prognosis, or survived something that no one has ever walked away from, my people say, “Somebody, surely, must have been praying for you.” I believe that we are all the recipients, the
I AM GLIDE – Titania Bucholdt
A focal point of GLIDE’s Sunday Celebration is the “I AM GLIDE” testimony, in which a member of the community takes the pulpit and tells their story, in their words. GLIDE is a place for healing and recovery, and one of the ways we empower each other is by telling our stories. Indeed, we often
Upcoming Events
Join our community gatherings, forums and festivities taking place each and every week.