Who supports Mediterranean Editors and Translators

Our funds come from event registration fees, set in function of projected essential expenses, and three other sources:

Membership fees

In 2006, a modest individual membership fee was introduced when we became chartered nonprofit association number 31703, registered in Barcelona with the justice department of the Generalitat de Catalunya.

In 2007 and in response to suggestions by members during the first General Assembly in 2006, an institutional membership scheme was created to allow institutions, agencies or networked freelancers to register staff, freelancers or students at the association’s continuing professional development activities, which are only open through membership by agreement with the tax authorities.

Institutional and corporate supporters

The Institut Europeu de la Mediterranea (IEMed) has generously provided their facilities for our first two meetings. In November 2006, they also kindly brought us into the network of the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures.

In 2005 we received a grant from Ediciones Doyma to create a web site. Grants to invite speakers in 2005 and 2006 were made by the Consulate of the Netherlands, Prous Science, Elsevier Doyma, and the Barcelona Consulate General of the United States. We have also been grateful for the donation of workshop facilities at the Hospital de Sant Pau and in the town of Canet de Mar and for logistical support from the Servei Lingüístic i de Terminología of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Prous Science also contributed to the Grants Fund in 2006.

We seek institutional and corporate sponsors for bringing speakers to events and to defray the costs of holding events. Our sponsors are acknowledged in our printed material and, if they wish, on our website. (Fundraising chair: Frances Luttikhuizen).

Private donors

In 2005 and 2006 we had no means for accepting and managing private donations in an open, transparent manner and so none were solicited and none accepted.

In 2007, a bylaw will be submitted to the General Assembly to regulate reception and allocation of private donations to the Grants Fund, which to date has been supported by allocation from general income or institutional sponsors. (Fund manager: Luci Vázquez)