From the Guide

How do you work out a project budget that will satisfy potential donors and also make it easy to use in your financial narrative when it comes time for reporting? In the Fundraising Guides module on Budgeting you can find insights into common budget models used by donors as well as the challenges of ensuring that projects are both financially viable and offer good value for money. 

The dangers of under-budgeting

DANIDA

The Danish International Development Agency, better known by its acronym DANIDA, is part of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs that provides humanitarian aid and development assistance to developing countries.

DANIDA’s overseas development assistance includes bilateral programs with specific media interventions managed by Danish embassies in DANIDA’s priority countries, which include Pakistan, Myanmar, Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso, and Niger. Other priority countries may also receive support in the media and freedom of expression categories through broader human rights and democratization programs.

See more on Denmark's Danish-Arab Partnership Programme (DAPP) and GFMD's profile on the DANIDA here.

Bloomberg Philanthropies

Bloomberg Philanthropies is a philanthropic organisation that has tackled a wide range of issues in more than 700 cities and 150 countries in the following core areas: the arts, education, the environment, government innovation, and public health.

Bloomberg Media Initiative Africa (BMIA), launched in 2014, is the organisation’s pan-African program. It offers cross-disciplinary education programs and mid-career fellowships. The aim is to increase the number of highly trained business and financial journalists, organise pan-African forums to examine global media best practices, and fund research to foster media innovations.

The BMIA is part of Bloomberg’s Global Business and Financial Education Program which is offered in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Middle East.

See GFMD's profile on Bloomberg Philanthropies here.

How Russian journalists in exile are covering the war in Ukraine 
by Masha Gessen

This New Yorker article by Masha Gessen relives the accounts of Russian journalists who have fled to the capital of Latvia due to their coverage of the war in Ukraine. In spite of ongoing threats from the Russian government, being cut off from their funding sources, a distrustful public, and a set of strictly-enforced laws and regulations in their new country of residence, these journalists continue to report from abroad in their improvised studio spaces.

One ray of hope in this bleak story is how a network of independent Russian media including The Moscow Times, TV Rain, and Meduza were able to obtain significant funding from international foundations with help from Dutch media entrepreneur Derk Sauer. He points out that “fundraising is much easier if you come together.”

This read is an eye-opener about the significant challenges that Russian media-in-exile are up against while also struggling to provide an alternative perspective to state-controlled media narratives for their readers back home.

ECPMF launches new “Opportunities in Exile” project

On March 2 the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) launched its latest project to support journalists living and working in exile in Germany. 

ECPMF is offering exiled journalists and media professionals in Europe both practical and legal aid as well as temporary refuge  in order to support “their ability to continue working in the face of threats, harassment, and/or intimidation related to their journalistic activities.”

The journalists will get access to professional training, internships, language courses, legal advice, psychosocial support, equipment, and networks. For media professionals who are particularly at risk, ECPMF also provides short-term relocation through their Journalists-in-Residence Programme. 

See more in ECPMF’s press release here.