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How to Bring a BFRO Town
Hall
Meeting to Your
Town or School
 If you or your local organization (e.g. Historical Society, school, local newspaper, etc.) would like the BFRO to hold a town hall meeting, here's how to make it happen: Organize a Fundraiser to bring the BFRO Organize a fundraiser to raise $5,000 - $7,000 for the BFRO to prepare, advertise, promote and then fly people in to emceee the meeting, and pay fuel/travel costs for witnesses to attend the meeting. The cost will be closer to $7,000 if your fundraising group cannot provide an auditorium venue with minimum seating capacity (75 seats) and modern audiovisual basics (microphones, PA system, projection screen, etc.). As soon as the funds are raised the BFRO will send its own organizers to meet with local organizers for a few days. The BFRO people need to inspect the venue and test the audiovisual equipment and discuss which local witnesses and presentations would be most informative for the community. The BFRO organizers will return there to run the actual meeting. In between those two visits, he BFRO wil promote the meeting via social media and publicize it in local (statewide) mainstream media to bring in even more witnesses. The TV show Finding Bigfoot was able to pull in more than 500 attendees on some occasions so no auditorium is too large. The production team also had access to the BFRO's internal unpublished Rolodex of 50,000 witnesses. Only the BFRO can reach into a well so deep and so old to pull out so many credible witnesses from every state except Delaware and Hawaii. Organizers can potentially recoup all of the money raised by charging door fees and arranging concessions and vendor booths, etc. In this way the sponsor-organizers are paid back for their efforts. Hence if a local Historical Society or boyscout troupe raises the funding, they then can get back all of the money raised (or most of it) and use it for a different project for those local organizers. In this way the organizers can fund two projects from the same fundraiser, or return the funding to the sponsor.  A door fee should be no more than $8 for adults, $6 for minors. If the town hall is part of a larger festival for which the general admission ticket includes the BFRO town hall meeting, then the town hall meeting can be free. BFRO Investigatorsresearch and recruit the witnesses and presenters, then emcee the meeting and fields questions from the audience. The BFRO also advertises for these meetings in advance via the BFRO web site and the group's substantial social media following. In some cases Matt Moneymaker and some other cast members from "Finding Bigfoot" will personally emcee the meeting and possibly run a local bigfoot expedition during the ensuing days. In most other cases Matt Moneymaker will be involved with the meeting via video teleconferencing. We're keen to work with people who want to make their event an annual event which grows in popularity each year, as did the Ohio bigfoot conference which now attracts thousands annually.  These meetings are similar to the ones seen in the TV series "Finding Bigfoot." The big difference is the depth of examination for each incident, particularly with regard to geography. We listen to witness stories then examine aerial imagery of the sighting locations to see what can be gleaned from them. More can be learned from aerial imagery of sighting locations than you might expect, especially after examining several areas within a given state.  These town hall meetings could be held anywhere where there are some credible sightings within a 50 mile radius. It does not have to be held in any of the towns listed below, but it can be. This list below reflects where town hall meetings would be within easy driving range of many eyewitnesses (i.e. the squatchiest parts of the state). The BFRO has mailing lists for each of those towns already, with at least 50 people who have asked to attend meetings at those locations. Those people will be able go elsewhere if the meeting isn't in one of those specifics towns, but not too many hours further.  As new meetings are scheduled, a second list will be shown on the BFRO web site. It will be the list where the meetings or festivals will happen. If you are interested in making a sponsorhip arrangements with the BFRO please send an email to TownHall@BFRO.net [TownHall@BFRO.net] stating that you'd like to help sponsor a meeting. An adminstrator from the BFRO will reply to discuss the details. No need to contact the BFRO to ask when and where a given meeting will be held. When we have that information we will post it on this page and also send out a tweet from the @BFRO_Updates twitter account. Follow that account for the latest updates. All of the towns below are in areas with a significant number of sightings reports within a 90 minute drive. |
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