Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Endowed Financial Aid Fund

Like most immigrants coming to the United States in the early 1900s, Harry Weinberg’s family arrived with little more than hope and a willingness to work hard. The second of seven children, Harry and his brothers worked at their father’s car repair shop in Baltimore. But beyond their many challenges, they saw opportunity.

Harry was gifted with a keen business mind and entrepreneurial spirit. Despite leaving school at age 12, he built a career that turned one successful investment into another, often seeing value where others did not. Beginning with Scranton Rapid Transit, he invested in Honolulu Rapid Transit in 1954 and proceeded to take over the company in 1960, ultimately building a transportation empire with bus lines in Honolulu, New York and Dallas. Again seeing opportunity, and before many others recognized the eventual value of real estate in Hawai‘i, Harry began purchasing properties throughout the Hawaiian Islands. At the time of his death, Harry Weinberg was the largest single real estate investor in Hawai‘i.

However, Harry never forgot his humble roots. In 1959, he created The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation to help meet the needs of low-income and vulnerable people.

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