Senior Manager | Fairleigh Hoots
Fairleigh Hoots
SENIOR MANAGER
Senior Manager
Fairleigh Hoots serves as Senior Manager with Rural Support Partners. Fairleigh is also the administrative lead for the Appalachia Funders Network and Central Appalachian Network. She is new to the world of philanthropy and nonprofits but brings many years of business management experience from the veterinary and healthcare industries.
Fairleigh grew up in the mountains of North Georgia and spent many years living in Colorado, Washington, and North Carolina. After almost 10 years of city life in Atlanta, Fairleigh and her family decided to return to their beloved mountains and chosen family in Asheville, North Carolina.
Fairleigh brings a wealth of knowledge in customer care, sales, administration, and project management to Rural Support Partners. She is able to seamlessly coordinate people, agendas, and priorities to successfully support the networks.
During her free time—when there is not an active pandemic—Fairleigh enjoys seeing live music, visiting local breweries, travelling, and especially watching sci-fi movies with her husband and 14-year-old daughter.
Fairleigh’s experience and skills in project management will help you deepen your impact and broaden your scale. Contact Fairleigh via email.
Project Management Institute, Newton Square, PA
Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM), 2018
St. Andrew University, Laurinburg, NC
Bachelor of Arts in Politics
Rural Support Partners Services
We are a nationally recognized management consulting firm with deep expertise in nonprofit management, social-enterprise development, networks, philanthropy, and rural community economic development. We work with high-impact leaders, non-profit anchor organizations, foundations, social enterprises, and networks that are working to bring about innovative forms of large-scale community and economic change in rural areas. Our services are based on a strong commitment to rural communities and result in increased organizational effectiveness, improved strategies, more collaborative efforts, and deeper impact.
We specialize in anchor organizations, grantmakers, and enterprises whose work advances complex community and economic change. Our services are built on decades of nonprofit and business management experience, employ the latest innovations from around the world, and remain grounded in what it takes to do effective change work in rural places. We ask powerful questions, listen deeply, and tailor our services to maximize organizational impact. The results of our management, planning, and strategy focused work includes increased organizational effectiveness, deeper community impact, and more resilient organizations. Core services include:
Organizational Assessment, Problem Solving, Consultation
Executive Transitions
Strategic Planning & Theory of Change
Program / Project / Initiative Development
Evaluation and Measurement Systems
Social Enterprise Business Planning and Theory of Change
Thought-Partnership and Coaching
We have over 25 years of hands-on experience in building, growing, and managing rural networks, collaborations, and teams. From organizational staff teams, to regional collective impact efforts, to national networks, we help our clients cultivate the necessary relationships and trust, clarify group norms and values, define their collective focus, develop plans, and build the right management structure to get collaborative work done. Core services include:
Network and Team Assessment, Problem Solving, Consultation
Team Building
Development of Partnerships and Collaborations
Strategic Planning and Theory of Change for Networks
Network Evaluation and Measurement Systems
Backbone Support / Network Management Training and Coaching
Thought-Partner for those who fund or support collaborations and networks
Our experienced facilitation team has decades of experience in event planning and design, group process, and participatory facilitation. With this experience, we help groups learn from one another, find opportunities, uncover solutions to sticky problems, and make collective decisions. Our events are engaging, productive, and produce deeper relationships, shared knowledge, and greater alignment among the participants. Core services include:
Design, Facilitation & Management of:
Think Tanks / Problem Solving Retreats
Conferences, Gatherings, Events
Group and Staff Retreats
We are driven to capture and spread the lessons, innovation, models, and tools that arise from rural development work. Though participatory research and evaluation methods, we help clients understand their impact, reflect-on their efforts, and incorporate lessons learned into their future work. We also work to unearth, document, and share the innovation and proven practices that arise across RSP’s body of work—making us smarter consultants and helping to advance the broader field rural development. Core services include:
Participatory Research
Tool and Model Capture and Development
Workshops and Training
White Papers
Thought Partnership
Knowledge Capture / Training / Field building (white papers, thought partnership)
Our work starts by listening deeply to the needs, problems, and desires of our clients and partners. We pinpoint the leverage points to improve effectiveness, increase resiliency, and deepen impact. We tailor a suite of services to advance your project.