CARSTAR joins 3M Hire our Heroes campaign

Jan. 1, 2020
CARSTAR Auto Body Repair Experts has a long history of supporting America’s military members, and is stepping up that effort with national support for the new 3M Hire Our Heroes campaign.
CARSTAR Auto Body Repair Experts has a long history of supporting America’s military members, and is stepping up that effort with national support for the new 3M Hire Our Heroes campaign. 3M recognizes the need for qualified technicians in the collision repair industry and has created an opportunity for returning veterans to find rewarding careers with the right education and support. CARSTAR Auto Body Repair Experts is supporting 3M effort’s in partnering with the Collision Repair Education Foundation to provide scholarships and support for collision repair training, and ultimately to drive employment in the collision repair industry for America’s returning veterans. The enrollment to win scholarship funds from the Collision Repair Education Foundation opened on January 1, 2013 and scholarship enrollment opportunities remain open through May 15, 2013.  For additional information and to apply, visit www.CollisionEducationFoundation.org.  Scholarships are available for qualifying returning veterans and their immediate family members.  Scholarships may be used for tuition, school fees, tools, textbooks and equipment at qualifying technical schools. The 3M Hire Our Heroes program also will help fund rehabilitation for the wounded veterans through Operation Comfort’s Automotivation program, a unique automotive skill-based rehabilitation program. It provides opportunities for wounded soldiers to channel their automotive skills – or learn new ones – to restore vehicles through the NABC Recycled Rides program for other military veterans. The campaign will be raising funds for their new facility in San Antonio, Texas.  For more information on the Automotivation program, visit www.operationcomfort.org/automotivation.

“This is a great way to support our service men and women from all branches of the military that defend our great nation,” says Scott Blake, owner of Blake’s CARSTAR Collision Center in LaPorte, IN.  “My first estimate of the day recently was for a USAA claimant on a 2010 Dodge Laramie pickup truck. As I was writing the estimate he picked up the Hire Our Heroes desk display and asked what the Hire Our Heroes Program was all about.  I explained that this was presented by 3M and our shop was a supporting member of the program. The customer then advised that he wanted to leave the vehicle with us for repairs.  I truly believe that our participation in this program helped the customer decide to have us do the repairs.”
 
Participating CARSTAR shop owners throughout the United States are helping support the 3M Hire Our Heroes campaign with their use of 3M products.  For every qualifying purchase of select popular 3M products by a shop owner, 3M will contribute to the campaign, with a goal of $250,000 total.

The CARSTAR owners who are participating in the program receive 3M Hire Our Heroes promotional materials for their shops to show their support of our country’s veterans.
 
“We’re proud of our network of CARSTAR store owners around the country who honor our nation’s military members with their support of programs like 3M Hire Our Heroes, along with their work on NABC’s Recycled Rides and CARSTAR’s annual Military Month in November,” says David Byers, CEO of CARSTAR Auto Body Repair Experts.  “Many thanks to our partners at 3M Automotive Aftermarket for making a national program like this possible.”
 
About CARSTAR
CARSTAR Auto Body Repair Experts is North America’s largest Multi-Shop Operator Network of independently owned collision repair facilities with more than 400 locations in 32 states and 10 Canadian provinces. CARSTAR delivers national scale, consistently high-quality vehicle repairs, repeatable outcomes and the industry’s highest customer satisfaction ratings; all repairs are backed by a national warranty and service guarantee. For more information visit www.carstar.com.
 
About 3M
3M captures the spark of new ideas and transforms them into thousands of ingenious products. Our culture of creative collaboration inspires a never-ending stream of powerful technologies that make life better. 3M is the innovation company that never stops inventing. With $30 billion in sales, 3M employs about 88,000 people worldwide and has operations in more than 70 countries. For more information, visit www.3M.com or follow @3MNews on Twitter.

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