{"id":419474,"date":"2026-07-31T13:48:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T13:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/419474\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T13:48:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T13:48:59","slug":"40th-aids-walk-sf-san-francisco-bay-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/419474\/","title":{"rendered":"40th AIDS Walk SF &#8211; San Francisco Bay Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sf.aidswalk.net\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AIDS Walk San Francisco<\/a> 2026, held on July 19 in Golden Gate Park, marked 40 years of community action in the fight against HIV\/AIDS, continuing its legacy as one of Northern California\u2019s largest and most visible fundraising events. Building on decades of grassroots momentum that has raised more than $100 million overall for Bay Area organizations, the annual event this year has raised over $815,000 so far.<\/p>\n<p>The event\u2019s enduring success rests on the dedication of longtime champions like volunteer leader Joanie Juster, who is also a San Francisco Bay Times columnist, and opening ceremony emcee <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/about\/newsteam\/dan-ashley\/?userab=kfsn_content_recs-582*variant_b_trending_kfsn-2513,kabc_content_recs-577*variant_a_control-2480,wls_content_recs-584*variant_b_trending_wls-2517,wtvd_content_recs-585*variant_a_control_wtvd-2518,ktrk_content_recs-587*variant_b_trending_ktrk-2523,wpvi_content_recs-586*variant_a_control_wpvi-2520,otv_web_content_rec-539*variant_c_trending-2268,otv_web_topic-580*variant_a_topic-2508,otv_search_page_design_unification-546*variant_b_search_redesign-2300,kgo_content_recs-583*variant_a_control_kgo-2514,abcn_popular_reads_exp-542*variant_b_7days_filter-2288,otvlink_abcnnav-576*variant_b_local-2479\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Ashley<\/a>. Juster has been deeply involved with the event since 1988, and consistently ranks among its top individual fundraisers year after year. This year, she has raised at least $12,516!<\/p>\n<p>Joanie took this footage while helping with the walk:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AIDS Walk San Francisco 2026, held on July 19 in Golden Gate Park, marked 40 years of community&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-419474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419474","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=419474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}