Hjweinbergfoundation.org
Title
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, Inc
Contact
- Weinberg Foundation
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- Owings Mills Maryland
- United States 21031
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- +1.4106548500
Description
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, Inc. is dedicated to assisting the poor, primarily through operating and capital grants to direct service organizations located in Baltimore, Hawaii, Northeastern Pennsylvania, New York, Israel and the Former Soviet Union. These grants are focused on meeting basic needs such as shelter, nutrition, health and socialization and on enhancing an individual’s ability to meet those needs. Within that focus, emphasis is placed on the elderly and Jewish communities.
For Harry Weinberg, business was a talent he learned early in life. Born in 1908 in Sambur, Galicia, Mr. Weinberg moved to the United States with his family at the age of four. At the age of ten, the young entrepreneur could be seen on the streets of downtown Baltimore selling souvenirs to parade-goers celebrating the end of World War I. Just as Mr. Weinberg showed exceptional business acumen early in life, so too did he evidence compassion and generosity at a young age. In the late 1930’s, while still a young married man with an infant son, he unhesitatingly signed affidavits of support, pledging his then meager assets to enable many German Jews to reach safe haven in America.
Although he had no formal education past the sixth grade, assiduous application of his innate genius and outstanding work ethic allowed him to accumulate a vast fortune for the benefit of, in his words, “the poor people.” At one time, he was the largest individual landowner in Hawaii. Simultaneously, he headed a diverse intra-urban transportation empire and, with his wife, caused the creation of and provided the initial funding for the charitable foundation which, he early declared, was to become the recipient of the fruits of his life’s work.
