Allen Hawley
{{short description|American fundraising administrator}}
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Allen F. Hawley (September 26, 1893{{spnd}}November 13, 1978) was an American fundraising administrator best known for developing the Pomona Plan, a pioneering deferred giving scheme, for Pomona College.{{cite book |last1=Fink |first1=Norman S. |last2=Metzler |first2=Howard C. |title=The costs and benefits of deferred giving |date=1982 |publisher=Columbia University Press |location=New York |isbn=9780231054782}}{{cite book |last1=Dunseth |first1=William B. |title=Allen F. Hawley, 1893-1978, Pomona College, class of 1916 |date=1994 |location=Claremont, Calif. |oclc=32589569 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32589569}}
Life and career
Hawley grew up on a ranch in El Cajon, California. He attended San Diego High School and then worked on the ranch for a year before enrolling at Pomona College, from which he graduated in 1916. He then attended Harvard Business School, but dropped out to serve as an ambulance driver in France during World War I. After the war, he worked as an assistant director at Fox Film in Hollywood and on the advertising staff of the Los Angeles Examiner.{{cite news |title=Chancellor Allen Hawley dead at 85 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/64258205/obituary-for-chancellor-allen-hawley/ |access-date=29 November 2020 |work=Berkeley Gazette |agency=Associated Press |date=17 November 1978 |pages=39}}
In 1938, he returned to work for Pomona, and in 1942 he introduced the Pomona Plan, a deferred giving scheme through which members receive a lifetime annuity in exchange for donating to the college upon their death.{{cite web |title=1944 |url=https://www.pomona.edu/timeline/1940s/1944 |website=Pomona College Timeline |accessdate=13 August 2020 |language=en |date=7 November 2014}} The plan enabled Pomona to substantially increase its endowment, and its model has since been adopted by many other institutions.{{cite web |last1=Sterman |first1=Paul |title=The Man with a Plan |url=https://pomonaplan.pomona.edu/manwithplan.php |website=The Pomona Plan |publisher=Pomona College |accessdate=11 August 2020 |date=14 November 2012}}{{cite web |title=Pomona Plan Book 2017 |url=https://pomonaplan.pomona.edu/pdf/Pomona%20Plan%20Book%202017.pdf |website=Pomona College |accessdate=13 August 2020}}{{cite news |title=Criticism Applied To Pomona Plan |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1959/3/16/criticism-applied-to-pomona-plan-padministration/ |accessdate=13 August 2020 |work=The Harvard Crimson |date=March 16, 1959}}{{cite news |last1=Baldwin |first1=William |title=A Fat Yield And a Deduction |url=https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2012/0625/investment-guide-12-charity-gift-annuities-fat-yield-and-deduction.html |accessdate=13 August 2020 |work=Forbes |date=Jun 6, 2012 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Brown |first1=Ronald A. |title=Pomona College Leads a Post-WWII Boom in Planned Giving |url=https://giftplanninghistory.org/2019/09/01/pomona-college-leads-a-post-wwii-boom-in-planned-giving/ |accessdate=17 October 2020 |work=Gift Planning History |date=1 September 2019 |language=en}}
Hawley retired from Pomona in 1962 as a vice president.{{cite news |title=Obituary for Allen F. Hawley |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/64259639/obituary-for-allen-f-hawley-1893-1978/ |access-date=29 November 2020 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=17 November 1978 |pages=86}} That year, the college awarded him an honorary doctor of law degree.{{cite news |title=AS WE SEE IT...By One of Us |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/624283392 |accessdate=17 October 2020 |work=Pomona Progress-Bulletin |date=12 June 1962}} He died in 1978 at a nursing home in Hemet, California.
Further reading
- {{cite book |last1=Dunseth |first1=William B. |title=Allen F. Hawley, 1893-1978, Pomona College, class of 1916 |date=1994 |location=Claremont, Calif. |oclc=32589569 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32589569}}
References
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