Honoring Veteran's at Alameda Sport Clips

Helping a hero is as easy as getting a haircut on Veterans Day. Sport Clips Haircuts locations across the country, including the location in Alameda at Alameda Landing, will host the company’s annual Veterans Day haircut event during which $1 per haircut service will support the Veterans of Foreign Wars’ “Sport Clips Help A Hero Scholarships” for service members and veterans.

The Alameda location is located at 2640 5th Street in the Alameda Landing Shopping Center. It is next to Habit Burger and across from Spin Pizza.

Since 2007, Sport Clips locations across the country have worked to support U.S. service members and veterans through Help A Hero.

• To date, Sport Clips and VFW have awarded 580 VFW-administered scholarships, totaling more than $2.4 million.
• This year’s goal is to raise $1 Million, which will afford scholarships of up to $5,000 for service members and veterans who are pursuing an education at post-secondary institutions, including trade schools.

Stores nationwide began collecting donations at checkout Monday, October 17, and will continue through Veterans Day, Friday, November 11, when they recognize “The Biggest Haircut Day of the Year.” On this day, $1 from every haircut service will go toward VFW-administered scholarships for transitioning military.

Sport Clips in Alameda, at Alameda Landing, will also be giving free haircuts to active-duty military and veterans on Veterans Day, with valid proof of service.

Sport Clips makes a commitment to those who serve our country not just in word, but through action. In addition to Help A Hero, Sport Clips offers special franchising options through the International Franchise Association’s (IFA) VetFran Program, and is a supporter of Ageless Aviation Dreams Foundation, the Aleethia Foundation and numerous other military and philanthropic programs.

As a former Air Force officer, Sport Clips’ founder and CEO Gordon Logan has a special place in his heart for active-duty military and veterans. He serves on the VFW Foundation Board and has served as chairman of the IFA’s VetFran Mentor Network.