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At Coffee with a Cop, Tenderloin Police and Community Converse About Safety and Build Relationships
GLIDE’s Coffee with a Cop event wasn’t just about free coffee and pastries – it was about community. Nearly 40 people packed GLIDE’s Freedom Hall for a chance to speak with the new SFPD Tenderloin station captain, Matt Sullivan, and other SFPD officers this past Thursday, October 2. “You can say hello, you can voice […]
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Selma Campaign 2.0: Justice in Alabama: A Conversation with Ainka Jackson
On January 30th, we gathered inside Glide Memorial Church’s sanctuary for Justice in Selma, Justice in the Tenderloin: An Invitation to Personal and Communal Introspection.
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GLIDE Stands Ready to Combat the Overdose Epidemic
Earlier this week, I attended a rally outside of Boeddeker Park here in the Tenderloin to address the dire consequences of the fentanyl epidemic. At this rally, I shared a message that GLIDE stands ready to combat the overdose epidemic ravaging our community using any effective tools at our disposal.
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Data for Good: GLIDE and Twitter team up on a skills-based volunteering journey
By Sarah Wunning and Satanjeev “Bano” Banerjee Since the 1960s, GLIDE has relied on direct service volunteers to help provide safety net services (such as daily free meals) to the most vulnerable people in our community. Recently, we have been experimenting with a Skills-Based Volunteering (SBV) model, in which we use the specialized skills of […]
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How GLIDE is making the most of the Holiday Season for Kids
Toy Wonderland, Old Navy Shopping Spree, and more! Filled with uncertainty and change, the last ten months of the pandemic have brought loss and hardship to many families everywhere—with a disproportionate share falling on people of color and those challenged by poverty. Many in our community work hard every day to make ends meet, and […]
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Photovoice – A Tool for Community Empowerment and Advocacy
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them. — Diane Arbus San Francisco is the land of invisible people—the homeless, the needy, the users, the ill, the marginalized, the undocumented. People who not only fall through society’s cracks, but who are ignored (or worse) by the middle and upper […]
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Eye on the Ball: How to keep housing, for you and everyone in the Tenderloin
This week, our first of many Development Without Displacement Community Workshops met in collaboration with over 80 residents and nonprofit allies. We talked about displacement and how to create a neighborhood and a city where we can all live in the neighborhoods we’ve been a part of for so long.
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“You all ready to fight?”
Reverend Harry Williams talks about the Nation, our City, and Low-Income Housing On April 27, Reverend Harry Williams, representing GLIDE Memorial Church and the Tenderloin, addressed a rally on the steps of City Hall. The rally, which started at the Federal Building and numbered several hundred people, was there to urge the planning commission to […]
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