Maybe this isn't the right fit, but a company I'm invested in and have advised since its inception is https://app.getriver.io/home
It's built around managing a community, from the perspective of the community manager or head of community. It harnesses the power of hosts, the people who actually make the events happen and captures the free energy in the system of human to human community.
I actually think for your use case it would be perfect. In each town you can crowd source (or directly invite the facebook group admins as hosts) hosts to create events and then run them. The platform started from creating and scaling the All-In Podcast community and now have worked with Tim Ferris, Blueprint/Don't Die, and next week all the events for Utah Tech Week https://app.getriver.io/utahtechweek
I believe in today's day and age if you are freelancing and you aren't writing and producing content everyday around your POV and skills and offering than you won't find work consistently. It's a way for others to validate your abilities and get a glimpse into, well, YOU.
I had a solo consulting business for 4 years before I started doing this, since I started writing everyday the world has opened up and I have more opportunity than ever. https://www.aletterfor.com/ is my substack.
As a Chief Revenue Officer I've scaled two companies now - one from $3M and 5 FTE's to $6.5M and 12 FTEs, the other being from 70 FTEs and $70M in revenue to 1400 FTEs and $2B in revenue. Both were hard, but the hyperscale of the second example was insane. The effort was in scaling hiring and trying to get the best people possible and also not letting the processes and systems break that we built to handle that scaling. I tell people all the time, compressing your pipeline and expanding throughput of it at the same time is the where the things break and at highest risk. Intense doesn't really describe the effort accurately. During this timeline (12 months or so from 70 FTE to 1400 FTE) I didn't sleep much, worked 12-15 hour days, and strained my family and relationships. It was also super fun and a blast.
Now I'm doing my own thing, started a newsletter, and being calm and balanced for a while. https://www.aletterfor.com/ Scaling a personal project is very rewarding as well.
I'm creating a multi-media project hosted on substack where I write a letter (in a deeply personal and old school correspondence) to my favorite people/creators/ and tell them how they've impacted my life. I give specifics about when and where I first heard/read/saw/etc. their work and what pieces of it have stuck with me over time and become part of my curated worldview and experience.
There aren't any public posts yet because I've been too much of a coward to release them into the wild and promote them even though I think they are great. I'm hoping by commenting here I can pressure myself to update in October with some actual stuff published.
It's built around managing a community, from the perspective of the community manager or head of community. It harnesses the power of hosts, the people who actually make the events happen and captures the free energy in the system of human to human community.
I actually think for your use case it would be perfect. In each town you can crowd source (or directly invite the facebook group admins as hosts) hosts to create events and then run them. The platform started from creating and scaling the All-In Podcast community and now have worked with Tim Ferris, Blueprint/Don't Die, and next week all the events for Utah Tech Week https://app.getriver.io/utahtechweek