Thanks to an online crowd-funding campaign in July, the Shipley Center, Sequim’s senior center at 921 E. Hammond St., is one big step closer to building its new Health and Wellness Annex across the street.

On Sept. 25, Brian Jackson, franchise owner of Home Instead Senior Care of the Olympic Peninsula and a board member for the center, presented a $42,460.84 check to the center for winning the Home Instead Senior Care Foundation’s GIVE65 campaign.

Michael Smith, executive director of the center, said about 50 donors gave $30,480 during the 65 hour campaign from July 11-13 with the first $5,000 matched. The center won another $10,000 for raising the most money too.

At the presentation, Smith revealed designs for the proposed annex which is estimated to add about 40 percent more space for the center’s operations.

Smith said they estimate construction will cost about $350,000 now and the center’s staff estimate they’ll need to raised about $125,000 more with the R. Leo Shipley Estate matching every dollar.

A capital campaign for a proposed bigger center is ongoing, Smith said, but the annex is “an intermediate way to treat the growing current needs.”

Shipley Center staff plan to participate in another Home Instead Senior Care Foundation fundraiser called Giving Tuesday the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, Nov. 28, with $50,000 potentially matched dollar for dollar.

Smith said check for updates at the center’s Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ShipleyCenter/ or visit https://www.homeinsteadfoundation.org/how-t…/giving-tuesday/.

The Shipley Center’s Executive Director Michael Smith and Development and Programs Director Michelle Rhodes accept a check from Brian Jackson, franchise owner of Home Instead Senior Care of the Olympic Peninsula, for winning the Home Instead Senior Care Foundation’s GIVE65 campaign in July. Funds will go to the center’s proposed annex.