It's called "Kickstarter" but anymore it seems you need to have a really slick pitch with mock-ups/prototypes and professional graphics to get any attention (and thus, backing). All that is really expensive. It seems antithetical to the apparent goal of removing barriers of entry into making "things".
This. I wanted to get money to design and develop this idea more, but it's still in the earliest stages, which they didn't approve: http://imgur.com/a/NTrx7
