In this session, we'll cover budgets in all shapes and sizes — including investigation budgets, project grants, EU grants, and organisational budgets as a whole. We'll provide you with tools to translate your ideas into budgets to present to donors, and to explore different financial scenarios. We will also discuss how to improve your financial reporting and what you need to know about financial statements. We'll look at how to budget for your organisation when there is little core funding and lots of project funding, mistakes to avoid, and how to juggle reporting needs. This aims to be a candid, hands-on session where we can help each other and learn together — so be ready to bring your questions and ideas!
Based in Slovenia, Anuška Delić is an investigative and data journalist. In 2018, she established Oštro, a non-profit center for investigative journalism in the Adriatic region. In 2021, Oštro established a sister center in Croatia, effectively creating a unique two-headed micro-regional... Read More →
Happy to share and learn about finance, business models, fundraising, processes, systems, and transparency in nonprofits. It doesn't need to be boring or terribly serious ;)
What can you learn from a discarded laptop? In this session, participants will gather in small groups, and each will receive a laptop. They will have 50 minutes to get as much information as possible from the machines, especially about their past owners. Due to the risks to their (past owners') privacy, a clear code of conduct will be read out at the beginning of the session: no personal information contained in the machines will be photographed or shared at any time.
The session organizers will document the strategies developed by each team to investigate and share the results with all participants. The participants' findings are not shared with the room (for privacy reasons). Besides the fun of satisfying naked curiosity, participants will be able to hone their forensics skills on hardware, develop investigative strategies in large amounts of files, and use OSINT techniques to cross-validate information. They will also have to develop team management skills so as to ensure that all team members have access to the data.
Finally, this session will serve us as a reminder to seriously erase data before disposing of hardware. Please note: in order to attend this session, you need to register. The maximum number of participants is capped at 20.
Pierre Romera has been Chief Technology Officer at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) since 2017. He manages a team working on the platforms that enabled more than hundreds journalists to collaborate on the Pandora Papers, the Uber Files, the FinCEN Files... Read More →
