Dhani Jones’ contacts are a who’s who in the sports, entertainment and business worlds, and he’s called on them as a philanthropic ambassador for Stand Together, a national organization dedicated to ending the cycle of poverty in this country.
Jones, the former Michigan linebacker who played on the 1997 national championship team and went on to a 10-year NFL career, was known as the Wolverines’ renaissance man with interests in just about everything, from music and art to making a difference with charitable works. He went on to create the BowTie Foundation to raise funding for underprivileged youth, was host of the Travel Channel show “Dhani Tackles the Globe,” and more recently started Detroit-based Petram, a data analytics firm.