Breakfast: 7:00 – 9:00 am Prep: 9:00 – 11:30 am Lunch: 11:00 – 2:00 pm Dinner: 3:00 – 5:30 pm
Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities
Join our community of volunteers and make a difference in your city.
By the Numbers
13,000
New Volunteers Each Year
500
Repeat and Long-Term Volunteers
85
Shifts Daily for Meals Program
Who We Serve
GLIDE is the leading social service organization, a social justice movement and spiritual community, dedicated to strengthening and transforming lives. GLIDE welcomes all in need of care and community. Our Daily Free Meals program serves a diverse cross-section of homeless and insecurely housed individuals and families as well as low-income working people, and senior citizens and differently abled folks on small fixed incomes. In addition to our cafeteria-style main dining room, GLIDE offers a separate smaller dining room for families, elderly guests and those with mobility challenges, where volunteers and staff can serve them at their table.
Serve a Meal
Come volunteer with our Daily Free Meals program for a truly transformative experience. We need 85 volunteers every day to fill the breakfast, prep, lunch, and dinner shifts. Your support allows us to serve approximately 2,000 meals per day to the community members who rely on our Meals program. Volunteers assist with everything from serving food to bussing tables. Be prepared to roll up your sleeves and make some beautiful human connections! Click “Volunteer Now” to sign up for an open shift!
Already signed up? Meet at 330 Ellis Street in the Creative Space (just off the lobby to the right) for your orientation.
Additional Opportunities
There are always more ways to help. Opportunities include working with our permanent staff in:
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HIV/Hep C Harm Reduction
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Sunday Celebrations
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On-call & Longterm Volunteering
Volunteers Making a Difference
Profiles in Volunteering
A look at some of the ways individuals make a huge difference by volunteering at GLIDE.
Jan 28, 2020
Go Nancy Goh!
Nancy Goh is among GLIDE’s most dedicated volunteers, a loving soul and an inspiring member of this community. Not only is she a regular in GLIDE’s Daily Free Meals program, but she has incorporated raising awareness and support for GLIDE into her passion for running. Below, Nancy reflects on the reciprocal nature of volunteering and the
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Jan 12, 2019
Celebrating Jonathan Leong
A dedicated volunteer whose legacy lives on through his bequest to GLIDE’s Daily Free Meals program Longtime volunteer Jonathan Leong passed away on October 19, 2017, leaving a very generous bequest to GLIDE’s Daily Free Meals program. Just days after creating his living trust, he told his sister Bonnie, “A person dies. A great charity
Oct 07, 2019
“Keeping It Going”
Edna Webster Coleman’s remarkable life in the struggle for social justice GLIDE’s Annual Fund manager Hallie Brignall spoke recently with Edna Webster, a longtime GLIDE community member and Bay Area educator and activist who has designated a portion of her estate for GLIDE and its work on behalf of the community. In the following account,