Glide FInal Presentation

Peder Steen, Sarah Bunevich, Patrick Sudlow, Alyssa Andrade, Noelle Lee

Started in 1969. Glide has become one of the biggest suppliers of services

to this community. San Francisco has 10,000 homeless. Mission: to create a radically inclusive, just and loving

community mobilized to alleviate suffering and break the cycles of poverty and marginalization.

Core Values: emerge from Glide as a spiritual movement. They are rooted in empowerment, recovery and personal transformation. Their core values inspire and guide their behaviors. They are the ground they stand on.

Five Pillars: Radically Inclusive, Truth Telling, Loving and Hopeful, For the People, and Celebration.

Glide Foundation Overview

Offer 86 different programs. Under health services, our

project was to raise hygiene kits to pass out to the homeless.

Glide serves nearly 950,000 meals annually.

27 staff members. Tens of thousands volunteers

make up 60 percent of its work capacity.

Attended a Volunteer Orientation. Volunteered at Glide in the soup

kitchen.

Gantt Chart

Divided into three separate groups On-campus Hotels Businesses

On-Campus

Hotels Businesses

On-Campus

$2,780 = 560 Hygiene Kits

Self-Directed Teams = no contact person when primary contact was unavailable

No clear Leader = difficulty appointing clear goals & appropriate feedback

Recognize the appropriate questions to ask before we planned our strategy

Schedule more check points within our group to make sure each member is on track

Be more proactive with businesses we solicited for hygiene kits face-to-face method earlier contact

Centrality Availability of

a “back up” volunteer to assist with paperwork.

Ask Glide to provide fact sheets & flyers.

Glide create long-term, not short-term relationships with businesses Recognize donors 

Communication Preference Span of Control

Glide publicize need for hygiene kits on Glide Website

Our team operated best as one departmental team instead of three separate self-directed teams.

Value and risk of self-directed teams. Pros: Efficient, less cost/communication

loss Cons: Single point of contact, no back up

Transformational Leadership vs. Transactional Leadership