I agree that some kind of system should be set up to fund projects.
Steemit itself is already a crowdsourcing platform that can fund projects simply by voting. This post itself already raised around $3000+ USD based on current STEEM and SBD prices. So, I don't really understand why it's so difficult to organize this.
From what I've seen how things are done here you do this:
- Create a tag "fundrequest"
- Get whales onboard to check the tag and vote
- Promote the tag to get the rest of steemit involved
- Create a discord channel for this project to get more details from people requesting funds
- Set up a separate site like utopian to manage this.
Posts like these posted in public (no account needed to read this post and comments) is a big reason investors stay away. I learned this from visiting many different forums. So, maybe a feature should be added to steemit for making a post private where only users with accounts can read it.
I hope this is helfpul in some way.