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For the fifth straight year, Sport Clips Haircuts is helping make phone calls home possible for deployed and hospitalized U.S. service members through its “Help a Hero” campaign, benefiting the Veterans of Foreign Wars’ Operation Uplink™. Beginning October 17 through November 13, more than 800 Sport Clips locations nationwide will raise funds to continue to provide service members with free phone time once a month and on holidays throughout the year.

“Some believe that the drawdown in troops and access to the Internet means phone calls aren’t as important to service members as they once were. However, since 2007, through our Help a Hero program, service members have been afforded more than 1.3 million calls to loved ones and spent 15 million minutes talking to them through company and client donations,” says Sport Clips founder and CEO Gordon Logan. “These calls are more than just ‘morale’ calls. They’re often a lifeline for those who are far from home – sometimes on their second or third deployment. The calls were important to me when I was overseas in the air force, and are still important today.”

Since setting their first goal at $30,000 in 2007, Sport Clips has more than doubled its goal for the program each year. This year, the franchise is aiming to raise $500,000 for Help a Hero by collecting donations at check-out. Also, Sport Clips will donate $1 from every hair care service on Veterans Day, Friday, November 11 - what the company calls “The Biggest Haircut Day of the Year.”

“Our Sport Clips team members are excited to be a part of this meaningful effort that helps our U.S. service members connect with loved ones, and they do some really creative things to make it successful,” says Logan. “Some of our stylists and managers hold bake sales, dinners and dances, and have even sponsored football games between branches of the services to generate excitement in this program.”

Sport Clips is now the VFW’s largest single-donation free call day sponsor, having donated more than $860,000 to Operation Uplink™ since 2007.

Sport Clips is one of the nation’s fastest-growing franchises; is the official haircutter of the Veterans of Foreign Wars; sponsors Joe Gibbs Racing’s NASCAR drivers Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin; and holds partnerships with several major sport teams across the country. It is known for its sports-themed, guy-friendly environment and has stores in 38 states.

The franchise has ranked in the top 50 “fastest growing” for the seventh straight year and has been ranked in Entrepreneur magazine’s “Franchise 500” for 12 consecutive years, in the top 10 in Forbes’ “Top 20 Franchises To Start”, and in the top 50 in Dun & Bradstreet’s AllBusiness.com “2011 AllBusiness AllStars.”

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