RichKern.com under new ownership

[IdahoBoy]

www.richkern.com/vb/misc/NewStuff.asp

RecruitingRegsitry.com and RichKern.com under new ownership (sorta) July 22, 2005
After owning and running RichKern.com since 1999, I find the success has forced me to make a change. What started as a couple hundred dollars a year fun hobby grew into a several thousand dollars a year full-time project in addition to my real full-time job. I’m still enjoying working on it but I am going to need financial support to keep it going and hence, the change.

RecruitingRegistry.com will still actively support the thousands of athletes continue their volleyball career through college scholarships and hundreds of college coaches in the recruiting and support process as it has in the past. RichKern.com will still have the mission of promoting women’s volleyball by helping athletes decide which program might be the best fit to further their education process through volleyball as it has in the past. Rich Kern will still be responsible for the running and operation of both sites as I have in the past. And finally, you will still have the benefit of having all the information you need to supply your craving for volleyball facts and figures as you have in the past.

However, this will require YOUR support through YOUR donations. I have formed a nonprofit corporation (RichKern.com, Inc.) that will be responsible for financing the sites. The goal of this new corporation is only to help cover the hardware, software, and promotional expenses needed to keep this effort possible. There is no money in the budget for salaries so this change is not an attempt to help Rich Kern become wealthy.

IRS Form 1023 has been filled out and sent in to the IRS. This is an application to obtain tax-exempt status through the long-term goals of the sites in promoting further education and amateur volleyball athletics. However, nothing is guaranteed at this point so as you send in your donations, you should assume they are not tax exempt. If that changes after you have sent in your donation, you will be notified so you can claim (and make even a larger donation) it for your next tax statement.

The new 2005 site will be opening in a few days and the donation feature will be ready at that time. Until then, just think about how much you have used the services of RichKern.com and RecruitingRegistry.com in the past and how much you would miss them if they were no longer available.

Please do your part to help support RichKern.com, Inc.



We ALL use Rich Kern diligently from this site and just doing research. A few dollars from each of us will really help his cause and keep volleyball information flowing! If each of us at Volley Talk donated just a little, that could end up being enough to cover his costs and keep him inspired to help us out!

Thanks Rich!

[Wolfgang]

I'm just amazed Rich Kern and John Tawa have been at it for so long. No matter what I may think of them for other things, I respect them for their longevity and commitment.

My burnout coefficient is pretty high. (I'm very good at the sprints and short distance races; bad in the marathon)

Okay, off to my new project...an independent animation film studio. Then, when I get tired of that, the annual college Battle of the Fraternity Greek Games... woo hoo! Then after that...

Rich, let's go fishing next time I'm in Nebraska.

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Ron Kern is amazing. No doubt about it.

[Gwangipal]

There is no Rich Kern. Dial his phone and you get a cat. Go to a Nebraska match and there are no seats available (Ha! Convenient, isn't it?) so you can't "see" him there. Block of four seats at the NCAAs under "Rich Kern": two guys who look like a Smith Brothers cough lozenge ad, an actress, and, you guessed it, an EMPTY seat. Still, since I need a tax deduction, I'll send money. BOTh dollars, even.

[Rich Kern]

gwangipal2 said:

Still, since I need a tax deduction, I'll send money. BOTh dollars, even.

Ahhhh, music to the ears. However, I hate to break the news to you but the donation is not tax exempt ... yet. The incorporation papers have been filed and approved by the State but I'm waiting to hear from the IRS on the tax exempt status. I'm hopeful but that part is still a gamble right now.

But hey, you've gambled away your life savings on lesser odds, right?

[Deleted]

I once asked Ron -- who does exist -- why he had named his site RichKern.com. He looked at me, as is his wont, like I was an idiot.

"My last name ain't Kern.com either," he said, spitting a huge wad of terbacky in the general direction of Gwangipal's backpack.

"Hey!" Gwangipal protested. "That's my backpack, Ron!"

"Sorry," said Ron, "I was aimin' fer yer collar."

The man is a lout. There is no doubt about it. (Ron, that is. Gwangipal's something of a lout, too, but that's neither here nor there.) But he has worked hard. He has, as they say, been "good for the game", or, as he would say "good fer the %$#*ing game."

So pony up.

[The Bofa on the Sofa]

So Rich, will you be giving out gifts in exchange for donations? For a donation of $100 or more, you get this snazzy richkern.com pen. A donation of $1000 or more gets you a richkern.com t-shirt (for $1500, you get it in your size). For a donation of $5000, you get the pen, t-shirt (in your size), and this handy tote-bag...

Monkeys are currently manning the phones to take your call. Now back to our "The Mechanical Universe" marathon...

[Deleted]

My RichKern.com pen uses invisible ink. Either that, or it's just out of ink.

It may also be a "Space Pen"--you know, one of those ones that you can write with even when you are upside down. Handy for Space Shuttle flights and parties at Ron's hacienda.

[Deleted]

The new design is up. I have to say that the nudity is a bit startling, at first. But you get used to it.

I'm proud of Ron. I truly am. (But, gawdamighty! Put some clothes on!)

[Wolfgang]

You pulled that one, too? It's a neat trick, eh?