Sport Clips - Help a Hero

Sport Clips Haircuts in Palm Desert & Palm Springs to “Help A Hero” through Nationwide Campaign

Local sports-themed hair care provider challenges team members and clients to make
scholarships for veterans possible

Palm Desert & Palm Springs, CA

(October 14, 2013) – Beginning today, Sport Clips

on 74998 Country Club Dr., Suite 240 in Palm Desert and 5001 E Ramon Rd., Suite
102 in Palm Springs will join the more than 1,100 locations across the country
in a single mission - to raise $575,000 for the company’s annual “Help A Hero”
fundraising campaign, benefiting the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Since 2007, the
Help A Hero program has supported the VFW’s Operation
Uplink™ “Free Call Days”, making more than 2 million calls home
possible for deployed and hospitalized U.S. service members. In its seventh
year, the program will expand its focus to offer
scholarships to veterans through the VFW’s Sport
Clips Help A Hero Scholarship Program. Each
scholarship will provide up to $5,000 of assistance to veterans who are
pursuing an education at post-secondary institutions, including trade schools.

Donations to Help A Hero will be
collected in-store through November 11, Veterans Day. 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.

“As a small business owner, I’m
proud I can join this national effort to help our nation’s heroes through these
scholarships,” says H Göck, Sport Clips owner. “Sport Clips and our clients
across the country have donated almost $2 million over the past six years to
support our service members during deployment, so I’m glad we can continue to
support them as they return home and transition into civilian careers.”

H Göck’s stores will also be
providing free haircuts to active-duty military and veterans on Veterans Day,
November 11th.