How to Get Involved or Volunteering 101
Events and Activities for Master Naturalists
What Is Association or Chapter (ACH) Service?
What is Sponsored Service?
AZMNA Approved Volunteer Service Listing
AZMNA and Chapter Job Descriptions Folder
3 Steps for Volunteers to Request a New Job Be Added to Volgistics (How to create a Job Description)
Job Description Form (DOWNLOAD or MAKE A COPY)
Process Flowchart
Association Partners/Partnerships

*** AZMN Timekeeping eCourse Training (START HERE) ***

Why Do We Ask Volunteers to Record Hours?

Overview of Timekeeping (Zoom Recording Voiceover with Slides / Slides Only)

What is Volgistics or Timekeeping 101?

What Counts As Volunteer Service

What Counts as Advanced Training

What Counts as Association or Chapter (ACH) Service

AZMNA Approved Volunteer Service Listing

Vicnet Procedures and Video (Where and How Do I Post my Hours?)

Vicnet Login Page Link to Post Hours

Steps to Request an Approved Job Be Added to your Volgistics Service Profile (includes form link)

Need to create a Job Description - Fill out this form 

Request Form (link only) to add Approved Job to your Volgistics Service Profile

2025 AZMNA Certification Tiers / 2024 AZMNA Certification Tiers

Sample Personal Monthly Hours Tracking Spreadsheet (Make a copy or download)

CERTIFICATION
In order to be certified or recertified, each member is required to participate in a minimum number of volunteer service and advanced training hours according to their Chapter, Cohort and Certification Tier listed below.  If you'd like more detailed information, see the 2025 AZMN Handbook pages 16-21.

Certification Year 1 Requirements (Borderlands Cohort 3, Central Highlands Cohort 4, Maricopa Cohort 7, Pima Cohort 9):

• Course work - 60 hours

• Volunteer Service - 20 hours - 5 hours of the 20 must be in service to AZMN or your Chapter

• Advanced Training - 20 hours - 5 hours of the 20 must be skills-based

Certification Year 2 Requirements (Borderlands Cohort 2, Central Highlands Cohort 3, Maricopa Cohort 6, Pima Cohort 8):

• Volunteer Service - 40 hours - 5 hours of the 40 must be in service to AZMN or your Chapter

• Advanced Training - 20 hours - 5 hours must be skills-based

Certification Year 3+ Requirements (Central Highlands Cohorts 1-2, Maricopa Cohorts 1-5, Pima Cohorts1-7):

• Volunteer Service - 60 hours - 5 hours of the 60 must be in service to AZMN or your Chapter

• Advanced Training - 20 hours - 5 hours of the 20 must be skills-based

IMPORTANT NOTES: 

• In any given year after you are certified, if you do not meet the recertification requirements, you still will remain an active member and accrue hours counting towards your lifetime volunteer service.  You are welcome to try again in the following year.  If a certification lapses, however, members must refrain from calling themselves "certified" in that year.  

• If you are in a new cohort and graduate the course but cannot meet the first year certification requirements, you can ask for an exception to extend your time to complete your hours for certification (i.e., health-related issue) or change your status to become 'A Friend of'.  Please see below for more information.

'A FRIEND OF' AZMN
If you no longer wish to obtain yearly certification but want to remain engaged, your Chapter can designate you as 'A Friend of ' the Arizona Master Naturalists (FPCMN).   

FPCMN are required to pay annual dues or make a one-time donation.  In return, Friends are invited to attend Chapter-sponsored advanced training events open only to Master Naturalists (if space is available). Friends are also invited to attend any Chapter meetings as a ‘guest’ and are eligible to order a Friend of Master Naturalist name tag upon receipt of their dues payment.  Friends may also wish to give back a limited service to the chapter either through assisting with publicity such as tabling events, or committee work under the supervision of a Certified Member of the Chapter.  FPCMN will remain active in Volgistics and can still post any volunteer service hours in VicNet.  We strongly encourage members to post their hours for tracking and funding purposes.  If you have any questions or would like to become a FPCMN, please contact your Chapter Leadership.  See pages 13-14 of the 2025 AZMN Handbook for more detailed information.

Exceptions, Resignations and Reinstatement
See page 26 of the 2025 AZMN Handbook for more detailed information.

NAME BADGES AND AWARDS
The Association Timekeeper runs Volgistics service reports in Mid-June, October, and end of December to determine certification status for all cohorts. The Association Timekeeper and Chapter Leadership will notify new interns of their certification and existing members of their recertification along with an attached certificate of recognition via email.  After you are newly certified, you will receive your Chapter Master Naturalist official name badge.  The AZMN Timekeeper will provide you with a Permanent Name Tag Order form link to order your name badge. See Page 27 of the 2025 AZMN Handbook for more detailed information.

If a member needs a replacement name badge, there will be a $25 reorder fee to cover the cost of the badge and shipping.  Please contact the AZMN Timekeeping Team to order a replacement badge.

Your certified status will receive special mention at any monthly or quarterly Chapter meetings in addition to our AZMNA Annual Conference.  At the Annual Conference, all members and interns that receive new certification or recertification for the year will receive a special avatar pin to mark this achievement.  In the past, yearly certification pins have included a ringtail cat, Saguaro cactus, gila monster, and dragonfly.  For those members who reach Milestone Hours for volunteer service of 250, 500, 1,000 or 2,500 hours, your achievement will be awarded with a separate Milestone pin.

If you have any questions about any of this information, please reach out to your Chapter Leadership or Timekeeper.  

Please review our AZMNA Communications Tools Worksheet here and read on for more information. 

Each Chapter and the Association utilizes Google Groups for communications with our Chapter Master Naturalist members, specific cohorts, committees, and working teams. Your personal email account is added to your Chapter Google Group when you take the course. You don’t need to login and use Google Groups to view emails. 

In addition, each Chapter and the Association uses a combination of Google Drive, Google Sites help or quick links webpages and Chapter websites to store and share relevant Chapter information and documents to its members.  Here is a tip sheet for using Google Drive and Google Groups.  

You can set your Google Group Preferences to receive an email digest or no email at all. 

If you do not wish to be on a specific Google Group to receive email or no longer want to serve on a Committee, please notify your Committee Chair, Class Coordinator or Timekeeper. 

Chapter Contact Information:

Borderlands Chapter Website

• • General Contact Email

  • Chapter Google Groups and Committee Emails

Central Highlands Chapter Website

• • Chapter Sponsor - Highlands Center for Natural History

  • General Contact Email

  • Chapter Advisor Email - Maria Icenogle

  • Chapter Google Groups and Committee Emails

Maricopa County Chapter Website

• • Chapter Sponsor - Maricopa County Parks and Arizona State University, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College

  • General Contact Info

  • Chapter Advisor's Email (Juanita Armstrong, MCP; Molina Walters, ASU)

  • Chapter Google Groups and Committee Emails  

Pima County Chapter Website

• • Chapter Sponsor - Pima County Conservation Lands & Resources, EE Program

  • General Chapter Email

  • Chapter Advisor Email - Melissa Mundt

  • Chapter Google Groups and Committee Emails  

Check with your Chapter President or Communications Team on how specific Chapter information may be shared differently with your Chapter members. 

If you incur expenses on behalf of your Chapter or the Association, you can get reimbursed for your expense! Please save all of your receipts. We cannot reimburse you without a copy of your receipt and a proof of payment. This includes copies of store receipts with an itemized list of what was purchased or an invoice, indicating the total amount paid by credit card or that it was paid in full. 

Complete the appropriate form based on whether the expense was for your Chapter or the Association:

• Expenses for the Association: https://forms.gle/MseRRnuh3C5tdk7r5 

  • Email recipts to: treasurer-azmn@azmasternaturalist.org 

• Expenses for Borderlands Chapter: https://forms.gle/nd25pkMH3g97pswz5 

  • Email receipts to treasurer-bmn@azmasternaturalist.org 

• Expenses for Central Highlands Chapter: https://forms.gle/J5EJLET5cjvZzt3s7 

  • Email receipts to treasurer-chmn@azmasternaturalist.org

• Expenses for Maricopa Chapter: https://forms.gle/vMtTX4NsjRPVnGp48

  • Email receipts to treasurer-mcmn@azmasternaturalist.org

• Expenses for Pima Chapter: https://forms.gle/bvZDF4KPFwoALhkh8 

  • Email receipts to treasurer-pcmn@azmasternaturalist.org 

Your reimbursement will be processed by your Chapter or Association treasurer within TWO WEEKS of submitting the form with the correct receipts for the purchase. If the treasurer has follow up questions, it may take a bit longer. 

Please review our Association Accounting Policies and Procedures document for more details. 

AZMN Incident Report 

If you are involved in, or witness, an accident while volunteering as a Master Naturalist (for our organization or one of our Partners), you MUST complete this form. You may also need to complete a similar form for the Partner Organization if you are working on behalf of a partner. 

AZMN Websites:  
Association    
Central Highlands
Cochise County & Borderlands
Maricopa    
Pima

AZMN Social Media Sites:
Association:   Facebook     Instagram     YouTube  
Central Highlands:  Facebook   Instagram
Cochise County & Borderlands:  Facebook
Maricopa:   Facebook     Instagram     Twitter     YouTube
Pima:   Facebook     Instagram     YouTube

Chapter Blogs:   
Central Highlands
Maricopa
Pima

Chapter Newsletters:   
Maricopa    
Pima

Other Shared Content (coming soon)

If you'd like to add a Social Media link in this section for your Chapter, please contact Deb Petrich at info@azmasternaturalist.org.

All approved AZMN and Chapter Logos are contained in this folder.  Feel free to download whatever you need. 

NOTE there are logos for both the Chapters AND the Association in that folder.