The closest experience I have to this is I sit on the AED committee for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario. On an annual basis we read all the requests for AEDs to be put into communities, and we made the decisions as to where they went.
One thing that can be done.... It may not necessarily be a request for funds, because you don't necessarily know how those funds are going to be used once they go into a global budget of a community's facility. Perhaps it could be a request for a Rosie or a Doctor in a Box.
It's difficult to know where that money will come from. I often ask what you would rather live without, your heart or your lungs. You need both. You can't do without either, although you can live deaf, I like to point out to my colleague Dr. Ballagh. It's not necessarily a nice life, but....