Help A Hero during Sports Clips' scholarships for veterans campaign

When you get a haircut at Sport Clips in Stillwater, you can “help a hero” at the same time by donating to the company’s Help A Hero program now through November 11, Veterans Day. Over the next four weeks, the Stillwater Sport Clips, along with the more than 1,200 locations across the country, will have a collective goal of raising $600,000 for their annual fundraising program that provides scholarship money for veterans. Since 2007, the company has partnered with the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) to support service members, and last year, created the “Sport Clips Help A Hero Scholarship” program to help service members and veterans in the next chapter of their lives. Each scholarship provides up to $5,000 of assistance to those who are pursuing an education at post-secondary institutions, including trade schools.
Donations to Help A Hero will be collected by Sport Clips team members in-store and at fundraising events through November 11. In addition, Sport Clips will hold “The Biggest Haircut Day of the Year” on Veterans Day, when each store will donate a dollar from every haircut service to the VFW-administered scholarship program.
“Knowing that we can do our part locally, here in Stillwater, to support our nation’s heroes across the country through scholarships is exciting and challenging. Overall, Sport Clips has already awarded more than 130 scholarships, and we want to help make many more possible,” says Andrea Zimmerman, the owner of the Stillwater Sport Clips. “Sport Clips is committed to showing its appreciation to the military and military families, and helping them toward the next step in their careers through education is a tangible way we can all say ‘thank you” – and it’s as easy as getting a haircut.”
“Thousands of U.S. service members returning home from the front lines still face an unstable economy,” says VFW Commander-in-Chief John Stroud, a graduate of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. “Together with Sport Clips, the VFW remains committed to providing our service members and veterans with the tools they need to reach their educational goals and successfully transition back into civilian life. The Help A Hero Scholarship has proven to be vital to those efforts.”
Sport Clips is the official haircutter of the VFW, and its Help A Hero campaign is just one of the many ways it supports active-duty military and veterans. To find out more, visit your local Sport Clips or SportClips.com.