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Harrison Nir

Harrison Nir is a multi-disciplinary artist, documentary producer, and social entrepreneur with a decade of experience advancing community-driven arts initiatives through funding, storytelling, and impact strategy. He founded Run Artist Run in 2022 to fill a critical gap in strategic funding support for individual artists and artist-run initiatives. To date, he has supported hundreds of artists in refining their stories, building tailored grant strategies, and seeing their projects through realization.

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DIY Funder Prospecting: Building a Grant Strategy

By Harrison Nir
June 2nd, 2026

I think of a grant strategy as a tool of creative liberation — from the cycle of reactive, haphazard applications fueled by anxiety or uncertainty; from the feelings of defeat that come with a cascading series of impersonal email rejections; from starting your grant fundraising plan from scratch each year, or with each project, or worse — not having one at all. A grant strategy is a way out of the riptides of random applications, and into a sense of intentionality and control over the outcomes.

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