OUR VALUES
Each year, the Edmonds Senior Center provides services to over 2500 older adults, and to others. It is our mission to support and enrich the social, physical, and intellectual health and well-being of seniors and all who use the Center. Our vision is to help all of our seniors to develop, maintain, and utilize the full potential within each of them.
To serve these ends, the Center, and all who operate the Center, seek to be caring, friendly, inclusive, stimulating and responsive, and to provide an affordable means for our membership and senior community to stay active mentally and physically. We accomplish much by putting these values into practice.
OUR BUDGET
The Center's annual budget is about $500,000 -- or about $20 per year per senior served. Historically, about 30% of this budget has been provided from such public sources as Snohomish County Human Services, the United Way of Snohomish County, the City of Edmonds (which also owns and largely maintains the building that houses the Center), and the City of Lynnwood.
OUR INCOME
Many users of the Center pay their own way, in part or in full, by paying membership dues, fees for classes (from art to technology, from language to exercise), and for discussion groups, bingo, bridge, haircuts, health care, and so on. And many pay by volunteering.
Much of the work of delivering the services of the Center is done by volunteers, which reduces the costs of operating the Center. Volunteers operate the reception desk, assist in the office, serve meals and coffee, help with special events, teach many of our classes and head our support groups.
The Center's largest single source of income is it's on-site Thrift Store. Volunteers also help make the Thrift Store profitable by preparing donated goods for sale, and by displaying and selling them. This brings the Center income while offering thrifty bargains to the general public.
OUR NEED FOR (TAX-DEDUCTIBLE) DONATIONS
Still, to continue to provide these benefits and services, the Center depends upon donations and generosity, which are much needed, greatly appreciated and extremely beneficial to our membership and the senior community. Your generous donations will help us to continue. Such donations are in general tax-deductible, because the Center is a qualifying 501(c)3 non-profit corporation.