{"id":3916,"date":"2018-05-21T14:32:24","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T18:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54.235.7.55\/?post_type=news-items&p=3916"},"modified":"2022-11-05T14:32:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T18:32:42","slug":"meet-max-glick-the-new-director-of-handup","status":"publish","type":"news-items","link":"https:\/\/lighthousemi.org\/news-items\/meet-max-glick-the-new-director-of-handup\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Max Glick, the new Director of HandUp"},"content":{"rendered":"

His Goal? To Grow the Platform and Reach More People in Need<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cooking for friends and family is his love \u2014 but helping others is his passion.<\/p>\n

Meet Max Glick, South Oakland Shelter\u2019s new Director of the fund-raising site HandUp.<\/p>\n

An alumnus of Western Michigan University and the University of Michigan, the 28-year-old started his new job April 23, coming to SOS from the Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor, where he was Associate Campaign Director.<\/p>\n

\u201c(HandUp) sounded like a pretty amazing project,\u201d Glick says, \u201cand a great opportunity to take the work I was doing before \u2014fund-raising \u2014 and do it with a completely different spin, going from an annual campaign model to an online crowd-funding-focused platform.\u201d<\/p>\n

Currently residing in Ann Arbor, the metro Detroit native is excited to return to the area. The move will bring him closer to family, especially his two-year-old twin nephews, Jack and Henry.<\/p>\n

\u201cI FaceTime with them all the time and it\u2019s just not the same,\u201d says Glick, who\u2019s known as the fun uncle. \u201cIt will be nice to spend more time with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although new to SOS, Glick certainly is no stranger to the housing challenges many face. He\u2019s worked with many people across the state dealing with housing insecurity. With a Bachelor\u2019s degree in public policy and communications and a Master\u2019s in social work, Glick\u2019s career path has been driven by an altruistic mission.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, a lot of it is saying, \u2018What is the skill set that I have and how can I use for the best possible purpose?\u2019\u201d he said. HandUp \u201cis an opportunity \u2026 whether it\u2019s $25 for somebody to get a copy of their birth certificate or $1,000 for a security deposit on an apartment, I feel like this is a unique opportunity to be able to [raise funds] and have a positive influence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Glick has big plans for HandUp. The goal, he says, is to build on the platform\u2019s success (nearly $3 million has been raised since it launched in 2013) and extend its reach far and wide.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s amazing what\u2019s been done so far and to see what the potential of it could be,\u201d says Glick, who\u2019d like to have HandUp grow its nationwide presence and become a household name.<\/p>\n

\u201cHomelessness is not an issue in just one state,\u201d he says. \u201cEvery state experiences it in different ways. There\u2019s no reason why we shouldn\u2019t be able to keep adding partners wherever those needs may be.\u201d<\/p>\n

But before that happens, Glick plans to reach out to HandUp\u2019s partner organizations for their feedback. Understanding the user experience and developing best practices, he says, are crucial to HandUp\u2019s future growth.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a really valuable resource in a space that can be incredibly competitive,\u201d Glick says, but \u201cHandUp is different because 100 percent goes right to the person whose profile you\u2019re donating to, through projects that are vetted by organizations people can trust. You also don\u2019t have to be limited by geographic area.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can be in Michigan and support somebody in San Francisco or the other way around.\u201d<\/p>\n

To learn more about HandUp and to find way to support the platform, please visit\u00a0www.HandUp.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":3917,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"xn-wppe-expiration":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-action":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-prefix":[],"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news_categories":[38],"class_list":["post-3916","news-items","type-news-items","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_categories-employment"],"acf":{"photo_gallery":{"gallery":[[]]}},"yoast_head":"\nMeet Max Glick, the new Director of HandUp - Lighthouse<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lighthousemi.org\/news-items\/meet-max-glick-the-new-director-of-handup\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Meet Max Glick, the new Director of HandUp - Lighthouse\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"His Goal? 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