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They had been on a city program that provides cash assistance to low-income residents, they say, but Jay missed his most recent check-in, so he lost his eligibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts invites the couple to walk with him the two blocks back to GLIDE, where there’s hot fried chicken being served — and options to sign up for a place to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can help get you guys assessed, get you a number to give you an idea of how long it’s going to be [to get housed]. In the meantime, I can get you guys into shelters,” Roberts tells Trisha and Jay, who are already packing the blanket they’re sitting on into a rolling cart carrying the rest of their belongings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you want, even today, I can get you guys a place to stay. It’s up to you guys, if you come with us,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They quickly agree, and Roberts is back on the move to tell them about their possible next steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The community ambassador program that has Roberts and others walking the streets of the Tenderloin was launched in July in honor of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983768/cecil-williams-legendary-pastor-of-glide-church-dies-at-94\">the late Cecil Williams\u003c/a> — GLIDE’s longtime pastor and a civil rights leader — and funded by Mayor London Breed’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978610/breed-unveils-san-franciscos-downtown-revival-plan-in-annual-city-address\">30X30 downtown revitalization plan\u003c/a>. Its goals are to make the Tenderloin safer and cleaner, build community in the neighborhood and ease peoples’ transition from the streets to housing and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The launch came at a tough time for the Tenderloin, as Breed promised aggressive encampment sweeps after a Supreme Court decision made it easier for cities to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991340/supreme-court-says-laws-criminalizing-homeless-camping-do-not-violate-constitution\">cite or arrest people for sleeping on the streets\u003c/a>. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998871/the-rhetoric-is-amplified-sf-homeless-sweeps-a-focal-point-of-mayors-race\">tight re-election year\u003c/a> for Breed, all eyes have been on how the mayor handles the neighborhood’s notorious problems, and how her challengers say they would if elected next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009983\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009983\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">GLIDE Community Ambassador Kenneth Holloway checks to see if an unhoused person is in need of medical care in the Tenderloin on Oct. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Crackdowns and sweeps have certainly had an effect on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006541/sfs-homeless-sweeps-have-cleared-over-1200-tents-where-are-people-going\">the number of tents and visible encampments\u003c/a> on the area’s sidewalks since August, but GLIDE’s strategy is emblematic of another approach to people experiencing homelessness. The nonprofit’s chief operating and information officer Donna LaSala said its work has a “special sauce” that helps people not just move around more but get off the streets for good, and also serves to revitalize the neighborhood, which has become increasingly fraught in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cecil said all the time, ‘We got to be for the people, feet in the street,’” LaSala told KQED. “And so what we did was we launched an ambassador program to bring those feet in the street and bring our walk-in center out into the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, we’re out there cleaning the neighborhood — almost as an excuse to be there and to build the trust and to engage with folks,” she continued. “Our ultimate goal is to create a relationship so we can get them to trust us so that we can bring them into services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GLIDE’s seven community ambassadors have lived experiences that make it easier for them to connect with potential clients, and understand which resources to offer and how.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are these people,” said Roberts, who grew up in Reno, Nevada, where he said he experienced a lot of problems similar to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997174/sfs-top-district-5-candidates-outline-bold-plans-to-tackle-drug-crisis-in-tenderloin\">those the Tenderloin is facing\u003c/a>. He moved to San Francisco after being released from incarceration, looking for a fresh start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only difference between them and me is that I have a roof over my head at the moment. But, you know, that’s subject to change. If I miss a paycheck or two, guess what? I’m in the same position that they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009986\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009986\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">GLIDE Community Ambassadors Jamika Love and Ezellia Johnson speak with unhoused people in the Tenderloin on Oct. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roberts leads one of the four ambassador teams at GLIDE. 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It’s a marathon. It’s coming back and back,” he says to the ambassadors. “Our friend here said it’s giving people three or four chances — no, we’re in the double digits at least. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The community ambassador program that has Roberts and others walking the streets of the Tenderloin was launched in July in honor of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983768/cecil-williams-legendary-pastor-of-glide-church-dies-at-94\">the late Cecil Williams\u003c/a> — GLIDE’s longtime pastor and a civil rights leader — and funded by Mayor London Breed’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978610/breed-unveils-san-franciscos-downtown-revival-plan-in-annual-city-address\">30X30 downtown revitalization plan\u003c/a>. Its goals are to make the Tenderloin safer and cleaner, build community in the neighborhood and ease peoples’ transition from the streets to housing and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The launch came at a tough time for the Tenderloin, as Breed promised aggressive encampment sweeps after a Supreme Court decision made it easier for cities to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991340/supreme-court-says-laws-criminalizing-homeless-camping-do-not-violate-constitution\">cite or arrest people for sleeping on the streets\u003c/a>. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998871/the-rhetoric-is-amplified-sf-homeless-sweeps-a-focal-point-of-mayors-race\">tight re-election year\u003c/a> for Breed, all eyes have been on how the mayor handles the neighborhood’s notorious problems, and how her challengers say they would if elected next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009983\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009983\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">GLIDE Community Ambassador Kenneth Holloway checks to see if an unhoused person is in need of medical care in the Tenderloin on Oct. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Crackdowns and sweeps have certainly had an effect on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006541/sfs-homeless-sweeps-have-cleared-over-1200-tents-where-are-people-going\">the number of tents and visible encampments\u003c/a> on the area’s sidewalks since August, but GLIDE’s strategy is emblematic of another approach to people experiencing homelessness. The nonprofit’s chief operating and information officer Donna LaSala said its work has a “special sauce” that helps people not just move around more but get off the streets for good, and also serves to revitalize the neighborhood, which has become increasingly fraught in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cecil said all the time, ‘We got to be for the people, feet in the street,’” LaSala told KQED. “And so what we did was we launched an ambassador program to bring those feet in the street and bring our walk-in center out into the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, we’re out there cleaning the neighborhood — almost as an excuse to be there and to build the trust and to engage with folks,” she continued. “Our ultimate goal is to create a relationship so we can get them to trust us so that we can bring them into services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GLIDE’s seven community ambassadors have lived experiences that make it easier for them to connect with potential clients, and understand which resources to offer and how.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are these people,” said Roberts, who grew up in Reno, Nevada, where he said he experienced a lot of problems similar to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997174/sfs-top-district-5-candidates-outline-bold-plans-to-tackle-drug-crisis-in-tenderloin\">those the Tenderloin is facing\u003c/a>. He moved to San Francisco after being released from incarceration, looking for a fresh start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only difference between them and me is that I have a roof over my head at the moment. But, you know, that’s subject to change. If I miss a paycheck or two, guess what? I’m in the same position that they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009986\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009986\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">GLIDE Community Ambassadors Jamika Love and Ezellia Johnson speak with unhoused people in the Tenderloin on Oct. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roberts leads one of the four ambassador teams at GLIDE. They all start with a 7:30 a.m. meeting before heading out to their designated zones in pairs for morning rounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We clean up everything from last night’s parties or encampments that were started,” Roberts says as he picks up littered receipts and dumps them into the quickly filling trash can he’s pushing. “We want to get the streets as clean for the community as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ambassadors are acutely aware that the Tenderloin is also home to a community of small businesses — and one of the largest child populations in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They need to be able to walk and access services too,” Gina Fromer, GLIDE’s president and CEO, said at a morning meeting full of song, prayer and friendly greetings Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rene Colorado, the executive director of the Tenderloin Merchants and Property Owners Association, said he’s seen the ambassadors out and about, doing a lot of cleaning that helps the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no one above picking up some garbage; there’s no one below engaging with ‘Good morning,’ ‘How are you doing today?’” said Sam Dodge, the director of street response coordination for the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has worked closely with GLIDE to get the ambassador program up and running, and said it has made real gains in the community, despite a long road ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not easy. It’s a marathon. It’s coming back and back,” he says to the ambassadors. “Our friend here said it’s giving people three or four chances — no, we’re in the double digits at least. That’s unconditional love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009981\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009981\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">GLIDE Community Ambassadors Kenneth Holloway (left) and Chaz Cobb pick up trash on the sidewalk in the Tenderloin on Oct. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As they walk along picking up trash, the ambassadors also check in with anyone sitting or lying on the sidewalks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are idle,” says Kenneth Holloway, another ambassador. “By going up and engaging, saying ‘Hi,’ letting them know GLIDE has lunch, it kind of re-enlivens them. Telling them to just go around the corner and get something to eat, something to drink. And now look — do you see anybody still sitting there?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After heading out of GLIDE’s headquarters on Ellis Street and up Taylor, Holloway engages with familiar faces like a man known as Smooth, whom the ambassadors see just about every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes, he’s having a good day; sometimes he comes down to GLIDE and gets food. Sometimes, it’s like, he’s not,” Holloway says. “But either way, we’re here; we say, ‘I still got you,’ every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holloway has been in San Francisco for a long time, though he was in prison for about 30 years of his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was on the front page of the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> one time. I robbed a bank and I shot some people many years ago,” he says as he walks back to GLIDE for lunch alongside clients and regulars in need of a warm meal. “I’m almost 60 now, but I didn’t want to be acting like I’m some Puritan person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ambassadors, who travel in pairs, are all considered low-threshold case managers, meaning they’re trained in “starting the process of bringing people out of marginalization back into community,” LaSala said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s their focus in the afternoon, though they all have a different area of expertise. Some work on street beautification, while others, like Holloway, offer people on the streets snacks and socks, grab water from corner stores, and encourage them to come to GLIDE for meals, harm reduction tools and other resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts looks for ways to connect his clients with housing. Sometimes it can take many tries to get people into a housing option that works for them. But when it happens, he says, “it’s a success story for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a couple with a dog that I’ve been working with since we started in July,” he tells KQED. “I finally got them housing on Monday for both of them in the same spot with their animals. You know, it’s very gratifying because we went through like three different shelters to get to where we are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s often said that people on the streets \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11962388/san-francisco-will-enforce-sit-lie-laws-when-people-refuse-shelter\">refuse shelter\u003c/a>, LaSala said that the truth is more complicated than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People don’t accept housing that feels dangerous to them,” she told KQED. “So, yes, we have folks who are afraid to go into the shelter system here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never experienced any one of our clients refusing long-term housing, but what I have experienced is people afraid to go into the shelters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Friends, elected officials and ordinary San Franciscans who benefited from his decades of ministering to the poor filled the sanctuary of Glide Memorial Church in the Tenderloin on Sunday afternoon to celebrate the life of Reverend Cecil Williams, who died last month at the age of 94.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985895\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11985895\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/02_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-029_qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Several people stand clapping in a church.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/02_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-029_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/02_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-029_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/02_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-029_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/02_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-029_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/02_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-029_qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of people sing and dance to memorialize Reverend Cecil Williams at Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco on Sunday, May 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Classy Martin, a Glide member since childhood, recalled how Williams was like a foster father to her. “I met so many amazing people through Cecil,” she said; he helped show her she didn’t need to be on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marvin K. White, who is now Glide’s senior pastor, recalls that under Williams’ leadership, Glide became a community anchor, “He was here all hours of the night. He would stand outside. He would greet people,” White said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams was known as a champion of racial equality, LGBTQ rights, and San Francisco’s most impoverished residents. His death on April 22 brought an outpouring of tributes from a wide range of the city’s official family, including this statement from Vice President Kamala Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Reverend Cecil Williams was a beacon of light and love,” said Harris, who worked with Williams when she was San Francisco District Attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In all he did, Reverend Williams was guided by his faith. He fought for the rights and dignity of all people. Cecil offered every person who walked through his doors a warm smile, a hot meal, and unconditional love,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985896\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11985896\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/03_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-026_qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A wide shot of several people standing in a church.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/03_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-026_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/03_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-026_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/03_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-026_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/03_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-026_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/03_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-026_qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of people gather to memorialize Reverend Cecil Williams at Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco on Sunday, May 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Albert Cecil Williams was born in the West Texas town of San Angelo in 1929. The grandson of slaves, Williams told NPR’s Michele Martin in 2013 that his mother decided early on that he would be a pastor when he grew up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So they called me ‘Rev’ when I was 2 years old and when I was 6 years old,” he said. “It was ‘Rev, Rev, Rev.’ So here I am. You know, here’s the reverend,” Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After graduating with a degree in theology from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Rev. Williams was recruited by the United Methodist Church in San Francisco — then a very small and dying house of worship whose members were all white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After attending the 1963 March on Washington, D.C., where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech, Williams arrived in San Francisco. It was a more conservative time — the city had a Republican mayor, George Christopher — and the San Francisco police routinely arrested people at gay bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams quickly decided that to be relevant in the turbulent 1960s, Glide needed a different approach, which he described in an interview with the local CBS television station in 1971.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that we have to radicalize things to get things done very quickly. Also, I believe that Jesus Christ was a revolutionary and he was a radical,” Williams said. Emphasizing Glide’s embrace of second chances, he said, “People tell me, this is the first time that we’ve come to church and felt good. Most churches people go to feel guilty. I don’t know why churches want to make people feel guilty. We work out our problems together, you see,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985899\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11985899\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/04_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-039_qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a suit plays a tambourine in a church.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/04_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-039_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/04_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-039_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/04_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-039_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/04_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-039_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/04_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-039_qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boxinett King plays the tambourine during a celebration of life for Reverend Cecil Williams at Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco on Sunday, May 12, 2024. Williams passed away last month at the age of 94 and was widely known as a champion of LGBTQ rights and racial equality. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Indeed, Williams opened the doors of Glide Church to anyone and everyone. Cleve Jones, who left Arizona as a teenager and landed on the streets of San Francisco in the 1970s, remembers Williams’ ministry in the Tenderloin as a very welcoming place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Glide Church was one of the few places where young gay kids like myself could go get a meal, get some counseling, get some help. He was a real pioneer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones, who later became a leading advocate for LGBTQ causes, remembers Williams as a critical bridge between the Black clergy and the city’s growing queer-identified residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had this ability to bring folks together in a way that reduced tension and also opened doors for funding and support for really critically needed services. He was a master at it,” Jones said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randy Shaw, a longtime housing advocate in the Tenderloin, noted that Rev. Williams was never afraid to raise his voice for people who lacked powerful advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was the fiery minister who was urging people to get involved in stuff and fighting for justice and not mincing words about things. He was very outspoken,” Shaw said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Glide’s membership grew, Williams expanded his ministry to include things like free meals, legal services and health and wellness clinics. And, Shaw notes, he raised millions of dollars to keep it afloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cecil was able to make financial connections to donors no one else in the Tenderloin, and maybe even in San Francisco, could make. He was the one who the big donors would give to,” he said.\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, Williams told KQED that Glide tapped into what people were looking for in their lives — authenticity and meaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People want something that matters, and what really matters is a radical love. Taking risk — what we call ‘having courage,’” Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, hundreds of people regularly lined up outside Glide for Sunday services. Inside, congregants of every race, gender and sexual orientation, socio-economic status and background locked arms in celebration — treated to a rollicking service that never disappointed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985898\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11985898\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/05_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-046_qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A poster of Cecil Williams with handwritten messages.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/05_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-046_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/05_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-046_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/05_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-046_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/05_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-046_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/05_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-046_qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poster with messages to the late Reverend Cecil Williams is displayed outside Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco on Sunday, May 12, 2024. Williams passed away last month at the age of 94 and was widely known as a champion of LGBTQ rights and racial equality. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the years, Glide has become a San Francisco institution. Its music ensemble performs at weddings, mayoral inaugurations and funerals — spreading its message of love, diversity, healing and second chances. He became a quintessential political insider, having the ears of mayors, city supervisors and members of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi called Williams “a spiritual giant whose saintly good works have transformed countless lives in the Bay Area and beyond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that “Reverend Williams was a clarion voice for love and justice: whether fighting against racism, protesting the Vietnam War, addressing poverty and addiction, and so much more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rev. Williams officially stepped down as CEO of the Glide Foundation but took up the title “Minister of Liberation.” He would still offer sermons from time to time, even when he was in a wheelchair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As his health began to fail him, Williams gradually stepped away from the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was working here at Glide, and I got a chance to see him up close and personal and see how he put his body on the line, how he lived liberation,” Pastor White said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White knows he can never \u003cem>replace\u003c/em> Cecil Williams — but he said he learned a lot from him. “I have lost a brother, a mentor, a brilliant theologian, a great role model for what it means to be a Black prophetic preacher and minister.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Christopher Alam, Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman and Spencer Whitney contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Friends, elected officials and ordinary San Franciscans who benefited from his decades of ministering to the poor filled the sanctuary of Glide Memorial Church in the Tenderloin on Sunday afternoon to celebrate the life of Reverend Cecil Williams, who died last month at the age of 94.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985895\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11985895\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/02_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-029_qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Several people stand clapping in a church.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/02_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-029_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/02_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-029_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/02_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-029_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/02_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-029_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/02_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-029_qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of people sing and dance to memorialize Reverend Cecil Williams at Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco on Sunday, May 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Classy Martin, a Glide member since childhood, recalled how Williams was like a foster father to her. “I met so many amazing people through Cecil,” she said; he helped show her she didn’t need to be on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marvin K. White, who is now Glide’s senior pastor, recalls that under Williams’ leadership, Glide became a community anchor, “He was here all hours of the night. He would stand outside. He would greet people,” White said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams was known as a champion of racial equality, LGBTQ rights, and San Francisco’s most impoverished residents. His death on April 22 brought an outpouring of tributes from a wide range of the city’s official family, including this statement from Vice President Kamala Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Reverend Cecil Williams was a beacon of light and love,” said Harris, who worked with Williams when she was San Francisco District Attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In all he did, Reverend Williams was guided by his faith. He fought for the rights and dignity of all people. Cecil offered every person who walked through his doors a warm smile, a hot meal, and unconditional love,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985896\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11985896\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/03_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-026_qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A wide shot of several people standing in a church.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/03_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-026_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/03_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-026_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/03_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-026_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/03_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-026_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/03_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-026_qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of people gather to memorialize Reverend Cecil Williams at Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco on Sunday, May 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Albert Cecil Williams was born in the West Texas town of San Angelo in 1929. The grandson of slaves, Williams told NPR’s Michele Martin in 2013 that his mother decided early on that he would be a pastor when he grew up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So they called me ‘Rev’ when I was 2 years old and when I was 6 years old,” he said. “It was ‘Rev, Rev, Rev.’ So here I am. You know, here’s the reverend,” Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After graduating with a degree in theology from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Rev. Williams was recruited by the United Methodist Church in San Francisco — then a very small and dying house of worship whose members were all white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After attending the 1963 March on Washington, D.C., where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech, Williams arrived in San Francisco. It was a more conservative time — the city had a Republican mayor, George Christopher — and the San Francisco police routinely arrested people at gay bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams quickly decided that to be relevant in the turbulent 1960s, Glide needed a different approach, which he described in an interview with the local CBS television station in 1971.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that we have to radicalize things to get things done very quickly. Also, I believe that Jesus Christ was a revolutionary and he was a radical,” Williams said. Emphasizing Glide’s embrace of second chances, he said, “People tell me, this is the first time that we’ve come to church and felt good. Most churches people go to feel guilty. I don’t know why churches want to make people feel guilty. We work out our problems together, you see,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985899\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11985899\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/04_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-039_qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a suit plays a tambourine in a church.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/04_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-039_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/04_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-039_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/04_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-039_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/04_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-039_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/04_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-039_qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boxinett King plays the tambourine during a celebration of life for Reverend Cecil Williams at Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco on Sunday, May 12, 2024. Williams passed away last month at the age of 94 and was widely known as a champion of LGBTQ rights and racial equality. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Indeed, Williams opened the doors of Glide Church to anyone and everyone. Cleve Jones, who left Arizona as a teenager and landed on the streets of San Francisco in the 1970s, remembers Williams’ ministry in the Tenderloin as a very welcoming place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Glide Church was one of the few places where young gay kids like myself could go get a meal, get some counseling, get some help. He was a real pioneer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones, who later became a leading advocate for LGBTQ causes, remembers Williams as a critical bridge between the Black clergy and the city’s growing queer-identified residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had this ability to bring folks together in a way that reduced tension and also opened doors for funding and support for really critically needed services. He was a master at it,” Jones said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randy Shaw, a longtime housing advocate in the Tenderloin, noted that Rev. Williams was never afraid to raise his voice for people who lacked powerful advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was the fiery minister who was urging people to get involved in stuff and fighting for justice and not mincing words about things. He was very outspoken,” Shaw said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Glide’s membership grew, Williams expanded his ministry to include things like free meals, legal services and health and wellness clinics. And, Shaw notes, he raised millions of dollars to keep it afloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cecil was able to make financial connections to donors no one else in the Tenderloin, and maybe even in San Francisco, could make. He was the one who the big donors would give to,” he said.\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, Williams told KQED that Glide tapped into what people were looking for in their lives — authenticity and meaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People want something that matters, and what really matters is a radical love. Taking risk — what we call ‘having courage,’” Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, hundreds of people regularly lined up outside Glide for Sunday services. Inside, congregants of every race, gender and sexual orientation, socio-economic status and background locked arms in celebration — treated to a rollicking service that never disappointed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11985898\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11985898\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/05_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-046_qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A poster of Cecil Williams with handwritten messages.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/05_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-046_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/05_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-046_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/05_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-046_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/05_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-046_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/05_20240512-CecilWilliams-JY-046_qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poster with messages to the late Reverend Cecil Williams is displayed outside Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco on Sunday, May 12, 2024. Williams passed away last month at the age of 94 and was widely known as a champion of LGBTQ rights and racial equality. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the years, Glide has become a San Francisco institution. Its music ensemble performs at weddings, mayoral inaugurations and funerals — spreading its message of love, diversity, healing and second chances. He became a quintessential political insider, having the ears of mayors, city supervisors and members of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi called Williams “a spiritual giant whose saintly good works have transformed countless lives in the Bay Area and beyond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that “Reverend Williams was a clarion voice for love and justice: whether fighting against racism, protesting the Vietnam War, addressing poverty and addiction, and so much more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rev. 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