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Strengthen a marriage. Strengthen a whole community.
Your gift helps couples in Collin and Grayson County get ready for marriage, grow in it, and find real help when it is hard — and helps local churches do the same.
- Premarital preparation for engaged couples
- A vetted list of counselors, kept current
- Gatherings and training for pastors and mentor couples
- Help for couples who could not otherwise afford it
- Couples through marriage prep
- 10
- Divorces likely prevented
- 0.3
- Costs avoided, families and taxpayers
- $9,900
On average — about one divorce prevented for every $3,300 given.
How we figure this
- $100 per couple is our working estimate for a premarital assessment and class materials. Slide it to see how the math changes.
- Each couple's risk of divorce drops by 3 percentage points — a deliberately cautious assumption.
- Each divorce avoided saves about $33,000 in personal and public costs (Hawkins & Clyde, Institute for Family Studies, 2019).
- These are averages across many couples — an illustration, not a promise.
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What your gift does
Every amount does something specific
These are illustrations of what a gift of each size covers. We will confirm each cost before launch.
$100
Walks one engaged couple through a premarital assessment and class.
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$250
Covers counseling sessions for a couple in crisis who could not afford them.
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$600
Feeds a leaders' gathering — lunch for about forty pastors, counselors and mentors.
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$1,000
Walks ten couples through marriage preparation.
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Why it matters
Family breakdown costs our counties an estimated $100 million or more a year
In state and local taxpayer costs alone — before counting what it costs the families themselves. Well-run marriage education has measurably lowered divorce in Texas before. See how we figure this.
Other ways to give
Not just online
By check
Payable to Enjoy Your Marriage, with "Marriage Initiative North Texas" in the memo line.
Marriage Initiative North Texas
3700 Burnett Drive
McKinney, TX 75070
Through your church
Churches can support the initiative in their missions or benevolence budget, or sponsor a gathering.
Your time
Host a gathering, serve as a mentor couple, or lead a class in your church.
Questions
Before you give
Is my gift tax-deductible?
Yes, as allowed by law. Marriage Initiative North Texas is a community initiative of Enjoy Your Marriage, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN [EIN]). You will receive a receipt for your records.
Where does the money go?
[TO CONFIRM — e.g., the share that goes to couples' programs, gatherings and training, and administration.]
Can I give monthly?
Yes. Choose "Monthly" above. You can change or cancel a monthly gift at any time.
How do you arrive at the impact numbers?
From published research on the cost of divorce and the effect of marriage education, with cautious assumptions. They are averages across many couples, not a promise about any one. The full reasoning is here.
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