I dig your idea, and tried to help the bootstrap of Litecoin Community Crowdfund System. Bootstrap the Litecoin Community Crowdfunding System
There’s money for this purpose (45 LTC if I remember well), but I don’t know why it doesn’t take of.
The effort for this campaign is a lot smaller and made not to create an entire ecosystem, but rather cheep up people.
FIY: I don’t have a pile of money and definitely I am not a whale. I began this campaign by giving 1 LTC and other 2 people helped to reach the final sum.