The Burton D. Morgan Foundation Awards more than $3.4 million
2/11/2008
A $2 million grant to Hiram College for an entrepreneurship center topped the grants made by trustees of The Burton D. Morgan Foundation in January.
The Burton D. Morgan Entrepreneurship Center will be under the same roof as a residence hall, providing students interested in entrepreneurship a chance to learn and live together. The entire complex will cost more than $7.6 million and open in August.
The Foundation, which focuses on promoting entrepreneurship and the free enterprise system, also gave the following grants in the areas of youth and collegiate entrepreneurship:
Kenyon College -- up to $246,600 over three years to create ways to introduce and instill the entrepreneurship spirit in students.
Purdue University -- $280,000 for the 2009 Life Sciences Business Plan Competition and for the Interns for Entrepreneurship Program for the next three summers.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Summit County -- $5,000 to support the Money Matters financial literacy program.
Cleveland Botanical Garden -- $13,500 to fund the training of three staff members to become Certified Entrepreneurship Teachers by the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship and the purchase of related curriculum materials.
Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education -- $10,000 for scholarships to enable Northeast Ohio teachers to attend the 2008 Annual Entrepreneurship Education conference and for costs associated with planning the conference.
Lake Ridge Academy -- $242,000 for the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and general operations.
Ashland University -- $75,000 to support financial literacy and economics workshops for teachers through EconomicsAmerica, Cleveland Center.
John Carroll University -- $5,000 to support the LaunchTown Entrepreneurship Awards.
Walsh University -- $30,800 to fund the second year of the undergraduate Entrepreneurship Experience and professional development for faculty in the field of entrepreneurship education.
Oberlin College -- $5,000 to help plan a symposium, Inventing the Future: Entrepreneurship at Oberlin.
The following grants went to adult entrepreneurship:
Business Advisers of Cleveland -- $4,900 for the purchase of a laptop computer, projector, software and presenter projector screen and for computer and administrative support.
Entrepreneurs EDGE -- up to $100,000 for the CEOs for NEO program.
Ideastream - $57,600 for Nightly Business Report and to support the broadcast of BizKid$ and associated outreach.
The Foundation also made several grants for the Hudson community and in the area of general giving:
Actors' Summit -- a $1-to-$1 challenge grant of up to $20,000 to allow the theater to sustain and increase the quality and variety of its productions.
First Congregational Church of Hudson -- $30,000 for general operations and up to $10,000 as a $1-for-$1 challenge grant for the building and grounds/maintenance endowment fund.
Hattie Larlham Foundation -- $7,000 for additional training of disabled workers at Hattie’s Café, Fountain and Gifts.
Hudson Advocates for Gifted and Talented -- $3,500 for a professional development seminar.
Western Reserve Academy -- $116,000 to fund the next two years of the Burton D. Morgan Leadership Program, including $100,000 for scholarships and $16,000 to fund leadership-building experiences for the scholarship recipients.
Leadership Akron -- $10,000 for 2008-2009 Philanthropy Project.
Akron Community Foundation --$75,000 to the Community Fund to be used for grants for arts and culture, civic affairs, education and health and human services.
American Red Cross-Summit County Chapter -- $30,000 for local disaster relief.
United Way of Summit County -- $50,000 for the 2007-2008 annual campaign.
