THE SAMARA FUND

FOR LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER VERMONTERS

The Samara Fund's mission is to help create a vibrant Vermont LGBT community and ensure that LGBT Vermonters are connected, healthy, appreciated, safe, and empowered.

The Samara Fund at the Vermont Community Foundation is named for the symbolism of seeds and growth, new life and vitality, the continuity of life, and of Vermont's native sugar maples. Samara is the distinctive winged fruit of the maple tree that gently spins its way to earth. Just as the samara ensures continuity of the maple tree, the Fund fosters and sustains Vermont's gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered communities by providing support for projects and scholarships and establishing a permanent resource for the future. 

The Samara Fund at the Vermont Community Foundation can help:

• individuals and families with charitable intent support LGBT causes both now and into the future
• nonprofit organizations that benefit the LGBT community by providing grants to help meet and sustain their missions

Together, we have the power to create a legacy for Vermont's LGBT community.

• Give to the Samara Fund 
• Apply for a Samara Grant
• Apply for a Samara Scholarship 
• Samara’s History 
• Samara’s Benefactors Circle 

The Samara Fund Advisory Committee 

• John Byer, Chair, Jericho
• Carol Maloney, Middlesex
• Brooke Pearson, Montpelier
• Harry Scott, Huntington
• Lauren Tronsgard-Scott, Hinesburg
• Lydia Winter, North Bennington

To learn more about how you can participate, contact Philanthropic Advisor Christopher Kaufman Ilstrup at the Vermont Community Foundation at 802-388-3355 ext. 295 or by email at cilstrup@vermontcf.org.