Giving Back

Some of the events BJ's participates in to give back to the community that has so graciously supported us are:

1. Special Olympics - Every year we close both campuses and go out to Fort Lewis to do the athletes hair - getting them prepared for their big victory dance. Hundreds of athletes show up to get their hair cut, styled, make-up applied and nails polished. The students learn that giving back is important for success.

2. The Rainbow Festival is another event we participate in.

3. The Puyallup Fair - where we set up a booth and cut hair from open to close, for 17 days straight, to service fair goers and employees of the fair . We have a free tuition drawing for one lucky person for our cosmetology program.

4. Sister Cities International - we are involved with the Tacoma/George, South Africa sister cities organization. We have raised thousands of dollars to help children with AIDS and we help support their battered women's shelter.

5. BJ's Beauty and Barber College, in historic South Tacoma, offers complimentary haircuts for the unemployed every Wednesday afternoon.

We love what we do and hope this gives you some insight of what we do with a passion.