hi - i wondered if there is an easy way to set up a "system"/page where i can direct people who want to create mini sites for events based on a standard template i can create with info fields to be filled in to customize per event and which would all live without the overall site, but have a URL that people could be sent to, have some approval process where i could approve the people/site before they are live, etc. each "private" templated mini site would have a couple info pages where they would fill in info re their event and also post photos etc. after the event and also each site would link to a set of event brite pages that process donations for each (charity) event... thanks for any tips (fyi, i'm a non-techie WP user)

Don't want to discourage you, but realistically spoken ... no way

What you want is no simple easy task and there is no easy way to do what you want.
Well .. the only 'easy' way would be to bring a fair amount (read: a lot) of cash and hire someone to build this.
This would be many days, if not weeks, of work.


btw. next time please use punctuation and paragraphs, makes it a whole lot easier to understand you