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On October 14th Lithuanian School of Washington held school's and KFF Matching Grant event at Lithuanian Embassy in Washington D.C. Over $10,000 were collected during the evening! The Kazickas Family Foundation is excited by such a successful event and will add $1,000 to the funds. Additionally, an anynymous donor will add $2,000 more. All collected funds will be used to create a productive educational environment for school's students.

On Sunday before the All Souls Day, the Kazickas family members with a small group of Alexandra Kazickas Lithuanian school children and parents visited the final resting place of dr. Joseph Kazickas, his wife Alexandra and their son Alexander at the East Hampton cemetery.

The Kazickas Family Foundation organized and sponsored four Lithuanian pediatric oncologists' visit to SIOP (Societe Internationale D'Oncologie Pediatrique) Congress in Washington, DC.

The Kazickas Family foundation congratulates Prof. Vytautas Landsbergis (b.10/18/1932) on his 85th Birthday.

On October 14th National Lithuanian American Hall of Fame inducted four notable Lithuanian Americans into its ranks. This year's honorees were President Valdas Adamkus, philanthropist Joseph P. Kazickas, Senator Dick Durbin and Museum founder and director Stanley Balzekas, Jr.

The Kazickas Family Foundation and ASSIST (American Secondary Schools for International Students and Teachers) announce application process for ASSIST 2018-2019 Scholarship candidates.

ASSIST is inviting all ASSIST Alumni to join President of the Kazickas Family Foundation Jurate Kazickas and Director of the ASSIST Board Woody Rutter for a discussion that will take place November 5, 2017 3-5pm at the Kazickas Family Residence in Vilnius.

Dr. Joseph P. Kazickas (1918-2014) and his beloved wife Alexandra (1920-2011) were generous supporters of the Lithuanian Foundation (est. 1962 in Chicago, IL). Dr. Kazickas had been on the Board of Directors of the Lithuanian Foundation for 13 years and had immensely contributed to its success.

In 2012 the Kazickas Family Foundation established the Joseph P. Kazickas Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Yale to support the Baltic Studies program in the MacMillan Center's Council on European Studies. Yale introduces 2017-2018 JPK fellowship recipient Arvydas Grisinas:

For the fourth year in a row, American University hosted the Heritage Language community programs conference, sponsored by American University's School of Education and TESOL Program in Washington, DC; the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL); and the National Heritage Language Resource Center (NHLRC) at UCLA.