You need to identify other organizations within the community concerned with your issue, convince important members of the benefits of a town hall, and recruit them onto your planning committee. [substeps] For example, if your issue of concern was childhood nutrition, some community organizations concerned with that issue might be schools, pediatricians, food banks, churches, farmers, and day cares.
[header] How to plan a town hall meeting on a health issue [title] Form a planning committee. [step] The idea behind a planning committee is strength in numbers. There are few issues related to health care that aren't of concern to more than one organization.