Collaboration: Performance Compacts

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 lesson from other's success and directly tap into another Member's expertise and capacity instead of reinventing the wheel.  The promise to work collaboratively has borne four initiatives: 

  Manufactured housing
  Multi-family development
  Loan servicing
  Volunteer management

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