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Originally posted by JTEX:
Is he the "scum"?

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Originally posted by Opus1:
For what it's worth - I know PTJ personally and have shared a duck blind with him many times. I would not refer to him as "Scum". Ruthless, calculating, intelligent, and wouldn't want to be on the opposing side - most definitely. He's done a whole lot for African conservation and have done so quietly and without a lot of fanfare - being a glory hound is not his style. He is one of the more humble uber-rich folks I have encountered over the years.

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Originally posted by Opus1:
For what it's worth - I know PTJ personally and have shared a duck blind with him many times. I would not refer to him as "Scum". Ruthless, calculating, intelligent, and wouldn't want to be on the opposing side - most definitely. He's done a whole lot for African conservation and have done so quietly and without a lot of fanfare - being a glory hound is not his style. He is one of the more humble uber-rich folks I have encountered over the years.

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Originally posted by Lhook7:
From Wikipedia. I added the bold red lettering:

Wealth and philanthropy

Tudor Jones has given nearly $50 million to his alma mater, the University of Virginia, subsequently having the college's basketball arena named after his father.
As of February 2017, Forbes Magazine estimated his net worth to be worth $4.7 billion USD, making him the 120th richest person on the Forbes 400 and the 22nd highest earning hedge fund manager.[3]

Jones is the founder of the Robin Hood Foundation, a philanthropic organization backed mainly by hedge fund operators. He founded and was the chairman of the board of the Excellence Charter School, the country's first all-boys charter school, located in the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. He founded and chaired the Bedford Stuyvesant I Have A Dream Foundation, which puts local students in colleges.[18]

In 1993, Jones co-founded the Everglades Foundation, which advocates for conservation of the Everglades, tropical wetlands in Florida.[19] He chairs the organization’s board, which includes Jimmy Buffett, Jack Nicklaus, David Lawrence Jr., Jon L. Mills, and William Wrigley Jr. II, among others.[20]

In 1986, he adopted a sixth grade class at an underperforming public school by guaranteeing college scholarships to students that graduated from high school. His idea was this would be an incentive to students to engage in academics with his goal being that 90% of those students successfully complete high school. However, only 33% of the students in the class eventually graduated from high school. Jones believed he "vastly underestimated both the academic and social challenges facing [the students in the class he adopted]" and his program was "completely ill-equipped to [help them] in an efficient fashion."[21] In his 2009 speech, Jones explained that this major failure on his part taught him lessons he's applied in subsequent education efforts.[22]

He owns Grumeti Reserves in Tanzania’s Western Serengeti and was recently lauded by the African Great Lakes country's Parliament for not permitting hunting in his reserve. [COLOR:RED] The flagship hotel there, Sasaskwa, was named the #1 hotel in the world by Travel & Leisure Magazine in 2011 and 2012.[23] Jones has been working with Tanzania and Paul Milton of Hart Howerton, a London architectural firm that specializes in large-scale land use, to develop regional plans for the sustainability of the area, its wildlife and its local communities.[18] He has set up a trust for Pamushana a private reserve, operated by South Africa's Singita group, the reserve is about 300 Miles southeast of Harare, near the Mozambique border in Zimbabwe.

Jones has made large donations to his alma mater, the University of Virginia, including a $35 million donation, which went to the construction of a new basketball arena, named the John Paul Jones Arena, in honor of his father, an attorney who also attended the University of Virginia.[24] In April 2012, UVA announced the creation of a new Contemplative Sciences Center through a $12 million gift from Jones and his wife, Sonia.[25]

In June 2012, he was reportedly a key figure in the controversial ousting of University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan.[26] He penned an editorial supporting her resignation.[27] On June 26, 2012, The University of Virginia Board of Visitors unanimously voted to reinstate Sullivan.[28]

In 2013, Jones joined the board of the Apollo Theater Foundation at the behest of investor Ron Perelman.[29]

Jones moderated the education panel at the 2014 Forbes 400 Philanthropy Summit, which brought prominent labor leaders and reformers in education—U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, and Washington, D.C. Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson—together for a discussion on five ideas to improve schools in the United States and add as much as $225 trillion to U.S. GDP over the next 80 years.[30] Excerpts from the panel were featured in Forbes Magazine's December 2014 Philanthropy issue.[31]

He set up the nonprofit Just Capital to help Americans learn about companies that are considered "just." The organization uses data to discover which companies are most involved with the priorities Americans find most important. The nonprofit uses an annual, multi-phase survey to find out what these priorities are.[32]

A political independent, Jones has donated money to numerous Democratic and Republican candidates. In 2012 he donated $200,000 to Mitt Romney.[33] During the 2008 presidential election, Jones hosted a 500-person fundraiser at his Greenwich home for then-candidate Barack Obama.[34] Jones also donated to John McCain and Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaigns.[35]

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Originally posted by StormsGSP:

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Originally posted by Lhook7:
From Wikipedia. I added the bold red lettering:

Wealth and philanthropy

Tudor Jones has given nearly $50 million to his alma mater, the University of Virginia, subsequently having the college's basketball arena named after his father.
As of February 2017, Forbes Magazine estimated his net worth to be worth $4.7 billion USD, making him the 120th richest person on the Forbes 400 and the 22nd highest earning hedge fund manager.[3]

Jones is the founder of the Robin Hood Foundation, a philanthropic organization backed mainly by hedge fund operators. He founded and was the chairman of the board of the Excellence Charter School, the country's first all-boys charter school, located in the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. He founded and chaired the Bedford Stuyvesant I Have A Dream Foundation, which puts local students in colleges.[18]

In 1993, Jones co-founded the Everglades Foundation, which advocates for conservation of the Everglades, tropical wetlands in Florida.[19] He chairs the organization’s board, which includes Jimmy Buffett, Jack Nicklaus, David Lawrence Jr., Jon L. Mills, and William Wrigley Jr. II, among others.[20]

In 1986, he adopted a sixth grade class at an underperforming public school by guaranteeing college scholarships to students that graduated from high school. His idea was this would be an incentive to students to engage in academics with his goal being that 90% of those students successfully complete high school. However, only 33% of the students in the class eventually graduated from high school. Jones believed he "vastly underestimated both the academic and social challenges facing [the students in the class he adopted]" and his program was "completely ill-equipped to [help them] in an efficient fashion."[21] In his 2009 speech, Jones explained that this major failure on his part taught him lessons he's applied in subsequent education efforts.[22]

He owns Grumeti Reserves in Tanzania’s Western Serengeti and was recently lauded by the African Great Lakes country's Parliament for not permitting hunting in his reserve. [COLOR:RED] The flagship hotel there, Sasaskwa, was named the #1 hotel in the world by Travel & Leisure Magazine in 2011 and 2012.[23] Jones has been working with Tanzania and Paul Milton of Hart Howerton, a London architectural firm that specializes in large-scale land use, to develop regional plans for the sustainability of the area, its wildlife and its local communities.[18] He has set up a trust for Pamushana a private reserve, operated by South Africa's Singita group, the reserve is about 300 Miles southeast of Harare, near the Mozambique border in Zimbabwe.

Jones has made large donations to his alma mater, the University of Virginia, including a $35 million donation, which went to the construction of a new basketball arena, named the John Paul Jones Arena, in honor of his father, an attorney who also attended the University of Virginia.[24] In April 2012, UVA announced the creation of a new Contemplative Sciences Center through a $12 million gift from Jones and his wife, Sonia.[25]

In June 2012, he was reportedly a key figure in the controversial ousting of University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan.[26] He penned an editorial supporting her resignation.[27] On June 26, 2012, The University of Virginia Board of Visitors unanimously voted to reinstate Sullivan.[28]

In 2013, Jones joined the board of the Apollo Theater Foundation at the behest of investor Ron Perelman.[29]

Jones moderated the education panel at the 2014 Forbes 400 Philanthropy Summit, which brought prominent labor leaders and reformers in education—U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, and Washington, D.C. Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson—together for a discussion on five ideas to improve schools in the United States and add as much as $225 trillion to U.S. GDP over the next 80 years.[30] Excerpts from the panel were featured in Forbes Magazine's December 2014 Philanthropy issue.[31]

He set up the nonprofit Just Capital to help Americans learn about companies that are considered "just." The organization uses data to discover which companies are most involved with the priorities Americans find most important. The nonprofit uses an annual, multi-phase survey to find out what these priorities are.[32]

A political independent, Jones has donated money to numerous Democratic and Republican candidates. In 2012 he donated $200,000 to Mitt Romney.[33] During the 2008 presidential election, Jones hosted a 500-person fundraiser at his Greenwich home for then-candidate Barack Obama.[34] Jones also donated to John McCain and Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaigns.[35]

There is still hunting there.