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ASSIST team, providing scholarships for Lithuania's secondary school students for their 11th grade studies in the United States since the 1992, selected students for 2017-2018 school year. The Kazickas Family Foundation supports three students.

ExCEL Abroad (Exchanges for Culture, Education, and Leadership) is one of the American Councils for International Education programs that provides scholarships for high school students from the United States to live and study in Lithuania for an academic year. It is made possible by a three-year grant from the Kazickas Family Foundation.

Two emergency medicine experts, doctors from Cincinnati Hospital, who initiated Lithuanian emergency medicine doctors’ international residency cycle in the US (supported by the KFF), dr. Herbert Loyd and dr. Kurt Knochel, visited hospitals in Lithuania.

Jurate Kazickas came upon the article in the New York Times "Giving Like a Rockefeller, Even if You’re Not Super-Rich" and was fascinated how much Tevelis' philosophy on giving had in common with David Rockefeller's - especially about gratitude. Thank you, Jurate, for sharing your thoughts and inspiring article.

Audrone V. Skiudaite, a writer for the oldest Lithuanian newspaper published outside of Lithuania "Draugas", talked to Jurate Kazickas about philanthropy, foundations history, its work and future plans.

John Kazickas enjoyed the opportunity to attend the presentations of two Dr. Joseph P. Kazickas Post-Doctoral visiting fellows at Yale. Jolanta Mickute and Vaidotas Vaicaitis are talented scholars who gave a most interesting review of their work during the Baltic Studies Lecture series at Yale.

On April 14th in Washington, DC, Neila Baumiliene from the KFF and Arminas Vareika who is managing foundation's "Basketball Power" program, met with the American Councils team Nathan Truitt, Catharine Wilson, Pamela Levy, Margaret Goelz and Adam Zeender.

On April 8th, at the NBPA headquarters in New York, the Kazickas Family Foundation hosted an awareness event to introduce "Basketball Power" program to nearby Lithuanian schools' children and their families.

Today is a day to remember Joseph P. Kazickas (April 16, 1918 - July 9, 2014), Founder of the Kazickas Family Foundation who would have celebrated his 99th Birthday. Let's remember this honorable man with a prayer and his oldest son's Joseph M. Kazickas Tribute to Tėvelis:

Lithuanian Ambassador to US Rolandas Krisciunas met with Neila Baumiliene, KFF NY office director, Arminas Vareika, "Basketball Power" (social responsibility program by KFF) manager in Lithuania and Aiste Furajevaite, "Basketball Power" coordinator in NY.