Other Initiatives for the community over the past 29 years were conducted under the Gee's Clipper's Brand and are now a part of our Gee's MKE Foundation Initiatives.

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• We’ve fed hundreds of families over the years either through the shop or by partnering with NBA athletes for turkey and food drives.

• Provided toys for countless underprivileged families during the Christmas season through our annual barbershop toy drive.

• Provided thousands of free haircuts for Back To School events, as well as many community events. Some years cutting over 400 heads per event. We also provide a free haircut for any student coming in the shop with a current report card with straight A’s on it.

• We’ve partnered with other businesses for Back to School events, and have provided backpacks with supplies as well as free haircuts.

• Gee’s Clippers sponsored a couple families displaced after Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana who moved to Milwaukee.

•  We were a part of Mayor Tom Barrett’s Reuse A Shoe Program, in which we collected tennis shoes through the shop to be ground up and used to resurface play areas on community playgrounds.

• Gee’s Clippers has provided free haircuts to the homeless at a local community center for many years.

• They have collected and distributed hundreds of coats, hats and scarves for underprivileged families during the winter season over the years.

• Gee’s Clippers is the only barbershop in the country to charter a Boys Scout Troop. Which assist with providing youth with experiences that they wouldn’t normally be provided.

• For a few years Gee’s Clippers had a partnership with Milwaukee Public Schools, providing mentors at schools with little to no African American male presence.

• Gee’s Clippers has sponsored countless community events over the years.

• Through 3 presidential and local elections Gee’s Clippers was a place where you could come to register to vote. The owner Gaulien Smith was a registrant.

• Gee’s Clippers has participated in busing people to the poles in a couple past elections.

• Gee’s Clippers has served as a place where politicians can come from near and far to reach constituents.

• They have provided thousands of tickets to Bucks and Brewers games to individuals that wouldn’t normally be able to go.

• Gee’s Clippers was part of the Men’s Barbershop Health Initiative during it’s tenor.

• We have held many initiatives in the shop to check blood pressure and to provide the community with helpful health information. We still check clients blood pressure on a daily basis.

• Gee has created a 5k health walk “G.R.I.N.D.” , geared to raise the awareness of the health disparities in our community as it relates to nutrition and fitness.

• Gee along with a couple organizations started “Real Men Real Talk”, which is a forum that takes place in Gee’s Clippers monthly that has drawn hundreds of men to talk about men issues and challenges.

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