GLIDE is a nationally recognized center for social justice, dedicated to fighting systemic injustices, creating pathways out of poverty and crisis, and transforming lives.
Fifty years of serving the most vulnerable, and hiring staff from the community, has given GLIDE exceptional cultural competency and earned it the trust of its clients and the community. GLIDE meets basic needs and supports people along pathways toward stabilization and self-sufficiency. Coupled with linkages to partnering organizations, this integrated approach delivers the most innovative and effective interventions to address poverty, homelessness, drug use disorders and family crisis.
Among its many services, GLIDE offers San Francisco’s only free meals program, providing three nutritious meals a day, 364 days a year, to the one-in-four San Franciscans facing food insecurity. Additionally, the GLIDE Walk-In Center (WIC) is a place where basic needs are met immediately. Shelter, hygiene and emotional support are some of the immediate needs that GLIDE addresses in an atmosphere of respect and compassion.