Coordinator News

Louise Pagone Lake County lpagone@ucanr.edu Louise Pagone joined UC Cooperative Extension in Lake County as the new program coordinator for the UC Master Gardener Program in Nov. 2020. Pagone was born in San Francisco and raised in Marin County.

Save-the-Date, #GivingTuesday is December 1. #GivingTuesday has become an important strategy to raise money to support your program and projects. Last year $29,398 was raised statewide across all UC Master Gardener counties to support the impactful work taking place across every day by volunteers.

With the limits placed on group size, social distancing, travel, and other personal safety restrictions holding in-person training for current and new UC Master Gardener volunteers is challenging. Many groups have overcome these challenges by hosting classes online, both live and recorded.

The Diversity Equity Inclusion (DEI) Alliance is an informal group of UC ANR personnel who have self-identified as being committed to promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion within UC Cooperative Extension.

All nine sessions of the virtual 2020 UC Master Gardener Mini-Conference are conveniently available on the statewide program's YouTube channel.