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Dash Gordon - Timothy Glover

Serving the Community

English - November 30, 2023 11:00 - 21 minutes - 15 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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'Dash Gordon' became a League City celebrity with his joyful DoorDash deliveries. Now he's opening a charity.

Timothy Glover oversees his own nonprofit foundation. The Dash Gordon Foundation is the capstone of his mission: spreading cheer and goodwill among the citizens of League City.

Or rather the career capstone of his "superhero" alter ego, Dash Gordon.

Glover, a father of eight, has been working in the car industry for about 30 years. In an unfortunate turn of events last year, his wife had a health scare. In need of extra money, he signed on with food delivery service DoorDash. But months after doing so, he became frustrated — no one opened their front doors to receive deliveries.

"I needed to create an experience. So I created a persona: Dash Gordon," said Glover, 57, of his spin on the character Flash Gordon. "People got a kick out of it and they started thanking me."

At the end of April 2022, he convinced his wife to buy a Flash costume. On his first night out in costume, he created quite a commotion: "Restaurant managers were like, 'You gotta go.' All the talk on League City social media was like, there’s this guy dressed in a Flash costume..."

More about The Dash Gordon Foundation
https://www.thedashgordonfoundation.org/

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