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VFW AND SPORT CLIPS HAIRCUTSANNOUNCE NEW SCHOLARSHIP FUND

 

Sport Clips Richboro is excited to announce itsparticipation in this year’s “Help A Hero” campaign to benefit the VFW’s‘Operation Uplink’ and the ‘Sport Clips Help a Hero Scholarship’fund.

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Since 2007, with the launch of its first “Help AHero” campaign to raise money for the VFW’s National Military Servicesprogram,Operation UplinkTM, Sport Clips has providedfree phone calls home for overseas service members. The company hascontinued its efforts each year with ever-growing success, generously donatingmore than $1.8 million to the program in total. 

This year, Sport Clips is expanding its Help AHero campaign in support of the VFW by raising funds to provide a newscholarship program for veterans who wish to further their education during orafter military service.  

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The new program, known as the VFW’s “SportClips Help A Hero Scholarship,” will award scholarships of up to$5,000 to qualifying veterans and will help veterans complete their educationalgoals without incurring excessive student loan debt.  

Sport Clips is committed to providing support toveterans as they return from war and move on to the next chapter of theirlives.  The scholarship program is our wayof saying “thank you.” Sport Clips’ Help A Hero campaign to raise funds willbegin on October 14 and run through November 11, Veterans Day.  Cash and credit card donations will beaccepted, and ‘thank-you’ give-a-ways will be provided while supplieslast.  While Sport Clips Richboro willcontinue to offer Veterans and active duty service members discounted cutsthroughout the year, on Veteran’s Day, $1 from every haircut service will go tothe new program. 

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