The Samara Fund, a component fund of the Vermont Community Foundation, announced awards of $72,500 in grants and scholarships in its fourth annual competitive grant round at the Foundation last week. One of the recipients: Green Mountain College, which has received $3,000 to support the student production of a web-based mini-series targeted towards LGBTQ college students in Vermont. The Samara Fund’s vision is to be Vermont’s leading source of permanent support dedicated to nurturing the vitality, success, and well-being of lesbian, gay lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities through dynamic and sustained philanthropy.