{"id":299275,"date":"2026-05-04T15:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/299275\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T15:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:43:09","slug":"upside-productions-works-to-make-a-difference-in-kern-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/299275\/","title":{"rendered":"Upside Productions works to make a difference in Kern County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 You can help support local organizations that are working to support those in need during this year&#8217;s Give Big Kern day of giving.<\/p>\n<p>Upside Academy Inc. is a local non-profit that helps students volunteer in the community.<\/p>\n<p>Students age 12 to 18 are able to volunteer at homeless shelters, senior centers, animal shelters or other community organizations.<\/p>\n<p>They can also participate in neighborhood clean-ups or other education projects.<\/p>\n<p>Upside Academy Inc. Advisor Katie E. Johnson joined ARC Bakersfield to share how the organization helps the community.<\/p>\n<p>More information about Upside Academy Inc. can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/upsideacademyinc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">upsideacademyinc.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Donations for Give Big Kern can be made at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.givebigkern.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">givebigkern.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 You can help support local organizations that are working to support those in need&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-299275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299275","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=299275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}