{"id":184974,"date":"2026-02-19T19:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/184974\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T19:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:27:07","slug":"local-organization-honors-60-years-with-storytelling-in-the-central-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/184974\/","title":{"rendered":"Local organization honors 60 years with storytelling in the Central Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A local organization is celebrating its diamond anniversary by sharing stories of the Central Valley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Central Valley Community Foundation held its formal launch for its 60th anniversary activities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Foundation serves Fresno, Madera, Tulare, Kings, Merced and Mariposa counties, but supports local investments, nonprofits and charitable giving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In honor of its 60th anniversary, the group created its &#8220;Stories That Shaped Us&#8221; series, featuring 60 pieces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A docuseries will release a video each month for the celebration. The foundation hopes they can inspire people to get involved through donations of money or time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;It&#8217;s just a call to action to pay attention to where you live,&#8221; said CEO Ashley Swearengin. &#8220;We are stewards of this place, and we can all get involved and make a difference, and make sure that what we leave behind for our kids and grandkids is actually a place that is inviting, thriving and see opportunity for the people that live here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Stories shared for the anniversary will profile leadership, dedication, and selflessness performed by community members, nonprofit leaders and donors.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A local organization is celebrating its diamond anniversary by sharing stories of the Central&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[87284,112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-184974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-87284","9":"tag-fresno","10":"tag-fresno-headlines","11":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}