PORT ANGELES — First Federal Community Foundation has donated $50,000 to the Olympic Medical Center Foundation for the campaign to raise funds for the expansion of the Olympic Medical Cancer Center.
“Very few businesses have done as much for the community as First Federal,” said Phil Walker, Olympic Medical Center Foundation president, in a news release. “We are pleased that they have become a major part of this community-wide effort.”
The project is expected to cost between $6 million and $8 million, according to Bruce Skinner, director of the Olympic Medical Center Foundation.
The First Federal Community Foundation was funded in January 2015 with a gift of cash and stock worth $12 million upon First Federal Bank’s conversion to a public company.
Since that time the foundation has given more than $1.3 million to local nonprofits.
First Federal, now in its 94th year, serves communities in Clallam, Jefferson, Kitsap and Whatcom Counties.
The First Federal donation is part of the $255,000 that OMC has received in cash or pledges toward the project.
“It is imperative that we expand the space to treat cancer,” Walker said. “A successful capital campaign will ensure that we will have the capabilities to treat this dreadful disease locally.”