Clarence Schock Foundation

Clarence Schock Foundation. . In 1951, the Foundation began awarding scholarships directly to universities to benefit students demonstrating both financial need and academic promise. Students were selected from the traditional geographic service areas of the original company, now referred to as the "Clarence Schock's Heartland," and enrolled at one of four Pennsylvania state-owned colleges (now universities): Kutztown, Millersville, Shippensburg, or West Chester. Many other universities and colleges also benefitted from this program, including Cheney, Rowan, Salisbury, Delaware State and University of Delaware, (all public universities), as well as Elizabethtown College. Since the beginning. more than $18,500,000 has been given to over four thousand SICO and Schock Scholars so that they might receive the college education they merited and that Clarence Schock envisioned they should have. , Additionally, from 1951-2015, The Schock Foundation has given substantial financial support to other Mount Joy organizations, including the Milanof Schock Library, Kids Joy Land, Rainbow's End Youth Services, Main Street Mount Joy, and the Mount Joy Area Historical Society. In making these charitable gifts, the Foundation has expended all of its funds in a fashion that ensures that they will be used in perpetuity for the purpose that Clarence Schock had originally envisioned - providing scholarship support to deserving students and enhancing the well-being of the people of his community. , "...I chose to do something for the benefit of the community in which I lived and did business.... I decided that the best manner in which I could serve society and follow my economic convictions was to plan that the future profits of the business which I owned and operated could go to the benefit of public schools." - Clarence Schock