{"id":318053,"date":"2026-05-16T00:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T00:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/318053\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T00:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T00:35:11","slug":"central-california-red-cross-seeing-uptick-in-gen-z-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/318053\/","title":{"rendered":"Central California Red Cross seeing uptick in Gen Z volunteers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vanessa Vasconcelos Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/13299281_052523-kfsn-vanessa-vasconcelos-Bio-Image.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, May 15, 2026 11:31PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Central California Red Cross seeing uptick in Gen Z volunteers\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Gen-Z is now the fastest-growing and largest volunteer group in the Central California Red Cross.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The organization says that&#8217;s thanks to a boom in student-led Red Cross clubs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">We sat down with two presidents of local clubs to hear what inspired them to lead their peers.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, May 15, 2026 11:31PM FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Gen-Z is now the fastest-growing and largest volunteer group&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[132909,706,112,114,113,35095,21897,294,28102],"class_list":["post-318053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-132909","tag-central-california","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-gen-z","tag-red-cross","tag-timely","tag-volunteers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318053","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=318053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}