Hello.
Go to Google search and ask for all the fundraising websites, and go to each one and make requests for donations.
Build a clean, excellent website,and put in some Paypal buttons that allow you to collect donations.
Write some excellent press releases telling your story, and get those press releases on the move!
Post them through every FREE press release service online. Again, Google to find 'em.
Creat your own blog,a nd start bloggin, and go to forums related to your interest, and make posts about what you are doing, and begin creating some relationships.
Stick with it.
Find every bit of local, state/provincial, federal connections to what you are doing, and get some interactions going.
Seek big hitters like Oprah, Ellen, etc., to put the spotlight on you.
Okay, there is more, but this will get you started.