Hi All,

Just wanted to let you know that your webjefa Susana will be stepping away from MALCS for the next five months to finish my own dissertation.  I love working with MALCS, but right now my priority has to be my work and my family’s long term stability.

Thanks to Theresa for already stepping up to post job opportunities.  If anyone else can possibly spare a few minutes a month to help post news and events to the blog, and or to check on our facebook page, would you please drop us a line?

Remember, anyone can post to the facebook page!

Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers!

Best,
Susana
MALCS webjefa
** On leave Fall 2011 **

Fourth in the series from the Executive Committee

We know that many of you are interested in MALCS’s status as an organization. Of particular interest is this question: Are we a 501c3 organization? The short answer to that question is no. Currently, we are an organization registered in California operating under the fiscal agency of The Chicana/Latina Foundation (CLF), a 501c3 organization. If you’d like more information about this organization, you can meet Olga Talamante, the Executive Director, at the Summer Institute. She will be presenting a workshop on Friday, August 5, 9-10:15 a.m. If you aren’t going to the Institute this summer, please feel free to check out the CLF website. You can find it at https://www.chicanalatina.org/   What I present here is an explanation of our organization’s fiscal status.

A Short History
At its inception, MALCS thought of becoming an independent organization but because it was housed at UC Davis, it was under the auspices of the Chicana/Latina Research Center for many years. This partnership with the Center and the University was financially advantageous. While there were some donations that supported the journal, the journal was largely funded by the university. In addition, all financial business was conducted via the university.

In the early 1980s, Dr. Ada Sosa Riddell, our founder, registered MALCS as a state organization in California. She also established a bank account for our membership funds. Although Dr. Sosa Riddell and others looked into getting federal status as a 501c3, they did not complete the process.

As MALCS separated itself from the Chicana/Latina Research Center and the University of California, Davis, we began to conduct all our MALCS business via the institutions with which we had working relationships: the universities that organized our summer institute and the universities that hosted the journal. We were able to process all necessary financial transactions through these institutions. In addition, we were generating less than $10,000 a year. At the time, there seemed to be no need to pursue 501c3 status. [Read more…] about MALCS: A Brief History of the Organization’s Fiscal Status

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social
invites your participation in the Writing Workshops at the
2011 MALCS Summer Institute at Cal State LA (CSULA), August 3-7, 2011

The deadline for submission is postmark July 1, 2011.
First-come, first-serve basis for 8 participants.
WATCH THIS SPACE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.

The Writing Workshops are one of the Journal’s formal methods of creating a feminist editorial process. Following the spirit and mission of MALCS, the editors offer the workshops in order to energize through collaboration and institutionalize mentorship. Participants bring their polished articles and depart with clear recommendations for meeting internal criteria of Chicana/Latina Studies, specific direction about revision, and first-hand knowledge about our feminist editorial production process.

We encourage applications from writers at all professional levels, including tenured or mid-career professors. Facilitators are mid-career scholars with robust publication records and nearly a decade in editorial work.

Due to the goals of the workshop, we cannot accept submissions of dissertation chapters.

Coming from, Karen Mary Davalos
National Advisory Board, Chicana/Latina Studies