In an interesting experiment Tomas has setup a short Kickstarter projects to raise some money for the Nero Hartford chapter events. Its a fairly plot heavy chapter or at least backstory heavy and it will be interesting to see if anyone besides the starving college students is willing to contribute. The link is at
http://kck.st/LtibZR and it is really interesting. I am not at all sure about how much, how long and what rewards are needed for a project to succeed in this space.
It certainly a general concept I am curious about to increase the prop level for most LARPS although Hartford has the props and is using it to help with Camp fees and the 10th anniversary projects