Ask your family members for money. You can also sell assets or borrow money against assets you own. The money doesn't fall out of the sky and there is no form or process you go through.
Spend a lot of time networking and meeting people in circles that have money or are invested in other projects.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.