Do you have a good idea for an adventure, but don't have the funds to put it into action? Will this adventure interest people with an educational, scientific, environmental, humanitarian or historical value? Could this adventure generate publicity? If so, you can get sponsors to pay for your adventure through an expedition.

The first thing to do is to clearly define your goal and plan the expedition. You need to thoroughly answer the following questions:

1) Who? 2) What? 3) When? 4) Where? 5) Why? 6) How?

Contact organizations to help you with the planning. The National Geographic Society (NGS) has a huge collection of information about adventure and the world. They also fund expeditions. The Royal Geographical Society (RGS) maintains an Expedition Advisory Center. The Center has listings of expeditions, people interested in attending expeditions, experts and books. RGS offers grants for expeditions and provides links to other grant resources.

Put up a website that details the goals, benefits and amount of funding needed for your expedition. Be sure to include a donation payment button. You can make a page on http://www.justgiving.com. This website specializes in helping people and organizations raise money.

Contact your family, friends and colleagues with your expedition proposal. Ask them to contact all of their friends and acquaintances as well. A great way to do this is through social networking websites. Let all of your internet friends know about what you plan to do and ask for their support. Even if they don't donate any money they can still send your proposal out to all of their internet friends, and those friends can forward the proposal to their friends as well. In this way your proposal may go viral.

Send your proposal to relevant professional bodies and businesses, universities, politicians, prominent scientists, exploration societies and organizations. Make sure that you include benefits that they will receive for their active interest. "The Directory of Grant-Making Trusts" at your library will help you find the appropriate sponsors, as will an internet search for "Grant-Making Trusts."

Collect your supportive statements and names, goals, and plans and put it all together for a media release. Send this release to newspapers, magazines, radio shows and television news programs, asking for support from universities, governments, private institutions, and other organizations. Again, make sure that you include benefits (like publicity) that these groups will receive for their support.

You can also host fundraising events. This is an excellent way to get your message out to the media. Once your fundraiser has been planned contact media outlets with the relevant details of your fundraiser. Let them know that they are invited to attend, and that you are available for interviews.

Follow up prospective sponsors with a telephone call and ask for a meeting when possible. At the meeting clearly and enthusiastically present your expedition idea, and play heavily on the benefits the organization is likely to receive for donating funds.

Once the expedition is over write a report of the results obtained. And be sure to thank everyone for their donations and support.

Repeat this process over and over again and you will have enough money to do anything you like from anywhere in the world.