Comments on: Jay Kennedy Scholarship deadline announced for 2010

By: Shauna Sentell

Shauna Sentell — Sat, 08 May 2010 06:31:40 +0000

No women, huh? Do I sense prejudice?

By: Jim Lavery

Jim Lavery — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:53:22 +0000

“Gee, I wonder how any women reading this thread feel?”

This is a forum for cartoonists. No women will be reading anything here.

By: Don Moore

Don Moore — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:40:20 +0000

I’m trying to come up with a football analogy for the rampant mis-communication in this comment thread. Something about missing a pass but running anyway with an imaginary ball.

By: Rick Kirkman

Rick Kirkman — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:02:52 +0000

Greg, sorry, I thought you were referring to Scott’s comment about the SCAD scholarships. I hadn’t seen the story about the webcomic scholarship, but have now. Impressive that they can do that. I’m guessing they’re basing that on a certain assumption of growth of their feature to pay for that. Scholarships based on endowments are by nature not allowed to touch the principal amount, just the interest. A private plan like this sounds like they’re just doing this off their profit line each year, not funded upfront like an endowment. Very different things.

By: Steve Skelton

Steve Skelton — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:23:12 +0000

I, too, have been frustrated with the internet’s ability to show women, yet the inability to actually feel them.

By: Jeff Pert

Jeff Pert — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:22:55 +0000

Gee, I wonder how any women reading this thread feel?

By: Greg Smith

Greg Smith — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:29:45 +0000

I’m referring to the guys from Least I Could Do ( http://forums.leasticoulddo.com/index.php?showtopic=30912 ).

By: Rick Kirkman

Rick Kirkman — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:50:21 +0000

@Greg Smith:

What do you mean “If one webcomic can fund a scholarship…”?

Wasn’t Scott referring to the Savannah College of Art & Design, not a webcomic? The Wieringo scholarship there is $1100, not $10,000.

Scholarships like that are usually set up as an endowment where only the interest from the donation is used to fund whatever the purpose is. The NCSF gave lump sum awards worth $50,000 to a couple of art schools and the yearly scholarship is funded through interest on endowments made by benefactors (the major one being King Features Syndicate) strictly for scholarship usage. That generates enough to give a cash award to the winner and pay for their attendance at the Reuben weekend.

The NCSF receives other donations that are earmarked for other uses that can’t be mingled with scholarships. The foundation money is compartmentalized when it comes to use…troop visits, indigent/hardship payments, scholarships, and other projects. Not all the money in the foundation is available for scholarships.

Colleges and Universities have a very broad base of resources for such things. There are many more alumni of any college than there are members of the NCS. Therefore, they have a lot larger pool of possible donations to fund individual scholarships.

By: Steve Skelton

Steve Skelton — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:07:41 +0000

I miss Jay.

By: Jim Lavery

Jim Lavery — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:13:43 +0000

Oh! no wonder I’m not banging any women–I have a job! I gotta reverse this process somehow.