Allen Hawley

Allen F. Hawley (September 26, 1893 – November 13, 1978[1]) was an American fundraising administrator best known for developing the Pomona Plan, a pioneering deferred giving scheme, for Pomona College.[2][3]

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.[4] After the war, he worked as an assistant director at Fox Film in Hollywood[4] and on the advertising staff of the Los Angeles Examiner.[5]

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.[6] The plan enabled Pomona to substantially increase its endowment, and its model has since been adopted by many other institutions.[4][7][8][9][10]

Hawley retired from Pomona in 1962[11] as a vice president.[1] That year, the college awarded him an honorary doctor of law degree.[11] He died in 1978 at a nursing home in Hemet, California.[3][4]

Further reading

  • Dunseth, William B. (1994). Allen F. Hawley, 1893-1978, Pomona College, class of 1916. Claremont, Calif. OCLC 32589569.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

References

  1. ^ a b "Obituary for Allen F. Hawley". Los Angeles Times. November 17, 1978. p. 86. Retrieved November 29, 2020.
  2. ^ Fink, Norman S.; Metzler, Howard C. (1982). The costs and benefits of deferred giving. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231054782.
  3. ^ a b Dunseth, William B. (1994). Allen F. Hawley, 1893-1978, Pomona College, class of 1916. Claremont, Calif. OCLC 32589569.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ a b c d Sterman, Paul (November 14, 2012). "The Man with a Plan". The Pomona Plan. Pomona College. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  5. ^ "Chancellor Allen Hawley dead at 85". Berkeley Gazette. Associated Press. November 17, 1978. p. 39. Retrieved November 29, 2020.
  6. ^ "1944". Pomona College Timeline. November 7, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  7. ^ "Pomona Plan Book 2017" (PDF). Pomona College. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  8. ^ "Criticism Applied To Pomona Plan". The Harvard Crimson. March 16, 1959. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  9. ^ Baldwin, William (June 6, 2012). "A Fat Yield And a Deduction". Forbes. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  10. ^ Brown, Ronald A. (September 1, 2019). "Pomona College Leads a Post-WWII Boom in Planned Giving". Gift Planning History. Retrieved October 17, 2020.
  11. ^ a b "AS WE SEE IT...By One of Us". Pomona Progress-Bulletin. June 12, 1962. Retrieved October 17, 2020.


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