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This years hours reporting deadline is midnight NOV 30, 2024.  All of your required hours is on your Volunteer Central Dashboard.  For assistance finding your project or reporting hours, reach out to your contact on your Volunteer Central dashboard or your local EMG Ambassador.  The link to Volunteer Central is below.

If you haven't logged into our Volunteer Central data reporting system lately, please do!  Try entering some of your volunteer hours.  Can't find your project?  Search for it in the system.  If you still cannot locate it, reach out to the MSUE contact on your VC Dashboard.

Need help learning how to enter hours? Use the link at the bottom of this page.

The 2024 hours requirements are 20 volunteer hours and 10 education hou.rs but be sure to check your hour goal in Volunteer Central in the event you are catching up on previous hours, too.  Note: Trainees (new onboards) need to achieve 40 volunteer hours to become certified (2023 onboards are due Nov 30, 2024; 2024 onboards are due Nov 30, 2025)

We plan to update our MSU Extension Master Gardener webpages to be more user-friendly and informative to MSU Extension Master Gardeners® and those interested in our program.  Thanks for your patience as we do this!

 

Sarah Rautio, MSU Extension Master Gardener State Leader, Melissa Jacobsen, MSU EMG Program Assistant, MSU Extension Consumer Horticulture Team

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