As a membership-based organization, FAHE is committed to facilitating partnerships among organizations, corporations, and individuals. Each of FAHE’s Members have strengths that make them outstanding organizations. In 2005, FAHE started the Berea Performance Compacts with the help of renowned organizational performance and learning expert Douglas K. Smith, to build on these strengths to serve more families. The Berea Performance Compacts are a paradigm shift that challenges our Members to look at the enormous problems facing our region and meet them head-on with scalable solutions.

By starting the Berea Performance Compacts, FAHE and its Members committed themselves to building on individual strengths to accomplish more together. Members can go beyond learning lessons from other's success and directly tap into another Member's expertise. This series of collaborative initiatives works cooperatively to provide competitive, standardized, professional services designed around existing expertise. Through the Compacts, FAHE Members share core competencies to develop models that can be replicated, allowing other Members to divest administrative functions and focus on their strengths, therefore decreasing costs and increasing efficiency while continuing to provide necessary services to their communities. This model allows Members to work collectively across the region while still tailoring their programs to meet the needs of local communities. By aggregating the demand of multiple organizations across our network, the compact leaders create a marketplace for the entire region.

The five active performance compacts are: 

  Loan Servicing

Goal: Double the number of contracts from 7 to 14 in 24 months

  Green Building

Goal: Double the production of units that meet a green standard in 24 months

  Mortgage Lending

Goal: Triple the number of originators from 5 to 15 in 18 months

  Manufactured Housing

Goal: Double the number of participating organizations from 3 to 6, while increasing the number of units from 5 to 15 in 18 months

  Multi-family Development

Goal: Double the number of projects from 2 to 4 in 24 months

Each initiative moves through three stages: pilot, standardization, and rollout. Through these Compacts, Members share core competencies to develop models that can be replicated, allowing other Members to focus on their own strengths.