The Burton D. Morgan Foundation awarded grants of nearly $440,000 in September to promote entrepreneurship throughout Northeast Ohio.Many of the grants benefit youth programs.Recipients are:• Entrepreneurial Engagement Ohio, $50,000, for classroom programs and student forums.• Foundation for Teaching Economics, $44,000, for high school college experience.• Friends of Breakthrough Schools, $53,200 for Cleveland Entrepreneurship Preparatory School program.• Girls Scouts of North East Ohio, $20,000 to expand Teen CEO program.• Ideastream, $40,000, for broadcast of Nightly Business Report on WVIZ/PBS.• Junior Achievement of East Central Ohio, $27,000.• Junior Achievement of Greater Cleveland, $45,500.• Junior Achievement of Mahoning Valley, $25,000.• Junior Achievement of North Central Ohio, $80,000.• Western Reserve Public Media, $50,000, for a 90-minute special, Micro Business for Teens.In recent months, the foundation also approved several small grants for youth, collegiate and adult entrepreneurship initiatives.Among those recipients are the University of Mount Union, $10,000 to support entrepreneurship programming for students and faculty; the TechBelt Initiative, $5,000 for job creation, attraction and retention in the life sciences and energy sectors; the Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education, $5,000 for the Youth Entrepreneurship Alliance; and NorTech, $1,000 for the 2011 Advanced Energy B2B Conference and Expo.The foundation, established in 1967 to help stimulate the free enterprise system, also approves grants in its home community of Hudson.Those recipients are Hudson Job Search, $6,550 for its job placement program, and an unspecified amount to Laurel Lake Retirement Community for a philanthropy program with Seton Catholic School.For more information on the foundation, go to www.bdmorgan­fdn.org.