Our Mission

Protect The Hersheys’ Children, Inc. (PHC) is a nonprofit organization seeking comprehensive reform of the Milton Hershey School (MHS) Trust.

With resources totaling over $9 billion, MHS should be saving children’s lives on a different order of magnitude than has been the case, utilizing best practices and led by America’s top child welfare professionals.

But instead, MHS assets have been misused for decades; program development has been stunted; and MHS board non-child agendas have produced inferior leadership.

PHC is committed to ushering in a new MHS dawn. We want MHS to serve children in numbers never before achieved and to deploy assets with maximum benefit for needy children.

PHC’s reform goals include:

• Ending MHS Board conflicts of interest
• Barring leadership self-enrichment
• Stopping misdirection of assets
• Removing partisan politics from all decisions
• Ending poor child welfare policies
• Hiring and promotion of MHS leaders on the basis of merit
• Creating an MHS Board whose core consists of child welfare professionals

Protect The Hersheys' Children, Inc. - Board of Directors

Protect The Hersheys’ Children, Inc. is a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to the well-being of Milton Hershey School (MHS) students; i.e., the children and sole lawful heirs of Milton & Catherine Hershey.

Our goals include ending childcare incompetence at the MHS Board and Administrative levels, assuring use of all Hershey Trust land and cash resources strictly for MHS children, removing MHS Board conflicts of interest, and creation of an MHS Board that is dedicated to the Hersheys’ child-saving mission. In short, we seek the MHS childcare reforms that the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General promised, before caving to powerful interests, rescinding reforms, and stacking the Hershey Trust board with political allies.

Our primary mode of action is to speak out about ongoing conduct detrimental to the Hersheys’ children. This includes policies that hurt MHS children, congregating MHS children, hiring unqualified administrators, politicization of the MHS Board, cronyism, abuse of frontline staff, and resource waste.

Our ranks include MHS alumni, childcare professionals, and others who share our desire to protect the Hersheys’ children. We are particularly proud to receive support from like-minded members of the Hershey community, who also seek the child-friendly and family-friendly environment that the Hersheys cherished.

Although we are a not-for-profit entity and welcome donations, these are not tax-deductible to our contributors since we do seek to influence elections. We use all our resources to generate accurate information, monitor MHS Board decisions, and convince public officials to act for the Hersheys’ children, rather than for political, corporate, or other non-child goals.

Protect The Hersheys' Children, Inc. - Board of Directors