Donations to Help A Hero were collected in stores and at local fundraising events in the fall of 2013 with efforts culminating November 11, Veterans Day, on Sport Clips’ “Biggest Haircut Day of the Year.” Stores donated a dollar from every haircut service to the scholarship program, and sponsors John Paul Mitchell Systems and Nioxin each contributed $10,000 to the effort. Reading just one of our Help A Hero scholarship recipients’ thank you notes is all it takes to recognize the need for this type of support, and we were proud to have Seth Atchison, who served in the Navy, with us when we made our recent donation announcement. Seth is one of the Sport Clips Help A Hero Scholarship recipients
and is using it to pursue his M.D. degree at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Sport Clips continues to be a proud supporter of phone calls home through the VFW’s Operation Uplink, but we’re excited to be able to expand our focus to include scholarships, which will support our nation’s heroes and their families in the next chapter of their lives. Sport Clips serves as the Official Haircutter of the VFW, and our Help A Hero campaign is just one of the many ways we support active-duty military and veterans. As a company we brought on board a Veterans Affairs Officer, Matt Deputy, USAFR, who spent eight years on active duty and continues to serve as a reservist. In his position, Deputy plays
an integral role in supporting Sport Clips’ military-focused partnerships, such as those with the VFW, Wounded Warriors Family Support, Honor Flights for WWII veterans. Matt also serves as a liaison to veterans who are interested in Sport Clips as a franchise opportunity. Sport Clips sponsored Wounded Warriors Family Support and its show car that traveled throughout the U.S. in 2013 fundraising for two specially equipped “smart homes” for wounded veterans and their families. Sport Clips also sponsored Ageless Aviation Dreams Foundation’s “Texas Tour,” which provided WWII veterans, many of whom live in long-term care facilities, with a flight of a lifetime in a WWII era Stearman bi-plane some of
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