Fresno County Healthy Marriage Coalition

What it reported doing in 2024

2024 Accomplishments--Classes: Altogether, 109 couples (218 people) attended 5 and 6-week (10 and 12-hour) Marriage Education (ME) classes at nine (9) different venues. (Trained coaches were utilized at classes, helping the couples attending to learn the communication skills correctly to enable them to be more effective at home.) This was accomplished by continuing to build partnerships with churches and other organizations in a collaborative effort to reach more couples with marriage education opportunities.--Marriage Weekend Retreats: Two retreats for couples were organized and facilitated by staff to strengthen marriages. The one in February with 21 couples was on Loving your Spouse Through the Seasons of Marriage and the one in November with 16 couples was about Reconnecting: From Housemates to Heartmates. --Marriage Events: To keep the importance of healthy marriages in the forefront of couples minds and to benefit couples, FCHMC widely promoted the National Marriage Week (which is Feb 7-14 every year) online events by marriage experts and also our own NMW event to pastors, couples, and at several churches: Our community-wide date night event was organized, promoted, and facilitated by FCHMC staff at a large church with 195 couples (390 people) attending this MARRIED UP! Dessert Date Night with a presentation by a couple, Dan & Danielle Macauley, from Nashville, TN, who encouraged the couples attending in their marriages. In October, a Couples Disc Golf event was organized and facilitated where 18 couples came to build teamwork with each other in a fun day together with other couples, including lunch. Fun activities were encouraged at the start of each hole and tips for healthy marriages were shared over lunch along with prizes for winners. --Parenting Class: Like Arrows class for couples on parenting was held with 10 couples attending, stressing the importance of a healthy marriage for heathy families and tools for parenting, was facilitated in the spring (April-June) in an encouraging, supportive group setting. --Individual couple mentoring was provided by staff to three couples for approximately 6 weeks each, using the Prepare-Enrich Inventory. --Pastoral counseling hundreds of hours were provided by staff to dozens of couples and individuals who needed more intensive assistance.--FCHMC staff attended/spoke at various churches, organizations, and marriage events, including a marriage conference in March for approximately 16 young couples in a local Hmong church in March, and a dinner at a restaurant for one churchs eight marriage mentor couples for training, sharing, encouragement and collaboration.--FCHMC staff attended the National Alliance for Relationship and Marriage Education national conference (NARME Summit) in Oklahoma City, OK, for training with marriage and research experts and collaboration with marriage ministry leaders from around the country. Staff also attended monthly trainings for marriage ministry leaders online via Zoom, organized by the Community Marriage Initiative, a national effort. Staff training benefits the churches, couples, and people that the FCHMC reaches with current information and additional ways and opportunities to support marriages.--The FCHMC website (www.growyourmarriage.com) was continually updated with the upcoming relationship classes and marriage events offered by the coalition with online registration available. These and other events were also promoted with an email program, as well as through social media.--Encouraging messages were sent throughout the year to couples and sponsors of the coalition, through the mail, email and social media.--A quarterly e-newletter for promoting FCHMC events and marriage tips for encouraging couples was begun this year.--The FCHMC continues to develop relationships needed to spearhead a county-wide effort to help churches start or expand their marriage ministries in a community marriage initiative called the Fresno Area Marriage Initiative (

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 76.2%; rating input score 76
• Program expense ratio: 70%; rating input score 70

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -8.8%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.88; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 18.5% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings