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2/15/2017 - DARLINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA – Longtime partners, Sport Clips Haircuts and the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. (VFW) will once again return to sponsor the Sport Clips Haircuts VFW 200 NASCAR XFINITY Series event at Darlington Raceway, extending their entitlement sponsorship through the 2020 race season. The Sport Clips Haircuts VFW 200 is slated for Saturday, Sept. 2 at the track Too Tough To Tame, as part of Darlington Raceway’s award-winning throwback weekend. “We a...

7/17/2017 - KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. is proud to announce VFW Life member and retired Army Col. Raymond Denisewich as its VFW Accredited Service Representative of the Year 2017. The colonel is an Iraq and Afghanistan veteran who served 36 years in uniform before being appointed as VFW Rhode Island’s Department Service Officer in June 2016. According to his awards package, he used his personal experiences and leadership skills to successfully imple...

10/16/2017 - GEORGETOWN, Texas – The annual Sport Clips Haircuts’ “Help A Hero” campaign kicks off today, and you can help service members and veterans take the next step toward civilian careers through education when you visit a local store. Now through Veterans Day, November 11, you can “Help A Hero” when you get a haircut at one of the more than 1,700 Sport Clips locations across the U.S. The goal again this year is to raise $1 million to benefit veterans through the Veterans of...

10/10/2017 - Retired Sergeant First Class Brian Livingston joined the Army while still attending high school in small town Grand Island, Neb. in 2000. He wanted to see more of the world, and believed strongly that he had a duty to serve his country. “It doesn’t matter how long you serve, just that you serve,” he said. Livingston deployed three times to Iraq, and served in Germany, Missouri, Colorado, New Mexico and Washington. He feels he absolutely met his aim of seeing different pl...

10/15/2012 - Beginning today more than 950 Sport Clips Haircuts locations will launch the company’s annual “Help A Hero” fundraising campaign to support the Veterans of Foreign Wars’ (VFW) Operation Uplink™ in their communities across the country. Sport Clips’ goal is to raise $500,000 in its sixth year of donating to Operation Uplink, a program that offers free call days to deployed and hospitalized American service members. Donations to “Help A Hero” will be collected in-store and ...

2/5/2013 - WASHINGTON — Four of the nation’s leading veterans service organizations—AMVETS, DAV (Disabled American Veterans), Paralyzed Veterans of America (Paralyzed Veterans), and Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (VFW), are urging the Administration and Congress to provide $68.4 billion to sufficiently meet veterans’ health care and benefits needs. The recommendation is contained in The Independent Budget released today, and available online at www.independentbudget....

12/10/2012 - Sport Clips Haircuts will provide deployed and hospitalized U.S. service members the opportunity to call loved ones free of charge on 13 holidays and 21 additional days in 2013. The franchise raised money through its Help A Hero campaign and made a $500,000 donation today in support of the Veterans of Foreign Wars’ (VFW) Operation Uplink™ “Free Call Day” program. This is the sixth year for Sport Clips’ Help A Hero, which will provide 17 more call days in the year ahead ...

12/15/2014 - KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Sport Clips Haircuts donated $650,000 to the Veterans of Foreign Wars today to help active duty U.S. service members and veterans further their education and reach post-military career goals. Through client and product partner donations, as well as Veterans Day contributions of $1 per haircut service, the franchise’s annual “Help A Hero” campaign was its most successful since the program began in 2007. Funds raised will benefit the VFW’s “Sport Clips H...

2/15/2012 - DARLINGTON, S.C. — Longtime partners, the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (VFW) and Sport Clips Haircuts, proudly announce the VFW Sport Clips Help a Hero 200 NASCAR Nationwide Series event at Darlington Raceway on Friday, May 11, 2012. The VFW and Sport Clips will use their NASCAR partnership to raise awareness about the struggles many military families are facing and the VFW’s mission to support active-duty military, veterans and their families. Found...

3/12/2012 - DARLINGTON, S.C. — Darlington Raceway, Sport Clips Haircuts and the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) are asking for race fans to help support the Help a Hero campaign by purchasing a ticket for the upcoming NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Southern 500 race weekend on May 11-12. For every adult ticket sold the week of March 12-18 (Monday thru Sunday) to either the Sprint Cup Series Southern 500 or Nationwide Series VFW Sport Clips Help a Hero 200, Darlington Raceway will make a...