Jimmy John Liautaud

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Franchise Today · Encore Performance: Jimmy John Liautaud on Benevolence! · 24 Nov 2021 podcast

At the same time, my father uh was interested in partnering with the University of Illinois.

He wanted to give some to

And named the University of Illinois Chicago campus the Leoto Business School.

So I partnered with my father also back in the early two thousands and we together gave a significant amount of money.

I think it w I would it doesn't matter what it was, multiple millions of dollars, and it's now the the Leoto Business School at UIC in Chicago.

So I did that that was important to my dad, and my dad was a wonderful guy.

So I joined him in in that journey.

And then from then, as far as education goes, I can't tell you how many people that I put through college, how many people I put through private high school.

how many people that I've just done it that I've just done it.

You know, but if I was to guess, I would say that uh between the ones that I've done on the side and the Horatio Alger Association, which I'm I'm a member of, which is about providing education for kids that are that come from really, really tough families.

I you know, I don't know, uh Stan, I've probably put fifty to a hundred kids uh through college, you know, and I again, you know, these are all situational.

These are employees, kids or kids

that I know or kids that I met at Horatio Alger or these are just I like to invest in people that are going to help themselves.

I like to invest in in situations where ninety nine percent of the money goes to the individual who's actually trying to help themselves and not to a situation where it it's it goes to administration and executives and and all the these other this other stuff.

So I really

you know, I'm a big believer in it and Horatio Alger Association is uh been one of the greatest associations that I've become a part of.

Because it's it it helps children that it come from disadvantaged situations.

And whether you're disadvantaged because you're obese or you're disadvantaged because you're poor.

I mean, some of these di I I met this gal, I remember at Horatio Aldra Association, when she was 14 years old, she lost her parents or her parent.

Uh she became she was the caregiver for her younger uh sister, then she got pregnant, and this woman graduated at 17 years old from her

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