We could fund this ourselves just by growing pot. A certain young lady on this forum informed me awhile back that she had been watching the series Weeds and thought it was her time to become a marijuana kingpin. Then again, I've been watching Malcom's Dad cooking meth on Breaking Bad and thought "There's a drug I could make and avoid using myself".
Or we could just start a pyramid scheme. Better yet, everyone start watching Antiques Roadshow and we'll do some crimes.
That, or a bake sale.