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Prof. Guntis Smidchens, a holder of the Kazickas Family Endowed Professorship in Baltic Studies at the University of Washington since 2013, discusses his new book on the centrality of song in the emergence of independent, Post-Soviet Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.

Last week, the Kazickas Family Foundation grantee Teach for Lithuania/Renkuosi mokyti held a Christmas Event: awards and a fair in support of the upcoming program's cohort.

KFF grantee LISS - Lithuanian Internship Summer Study program announced information for LISS 2016 Applications with a deadline on March 15, 2016

„Renkuosi mokyti!“ – “Teach for Lithuania”, program supported by KFF, attracts educated, active, creative and motivated young people to become teachers. The program is one of 36 Teach for All network partners worldwide. Its mission is to help each child learn, especially those in rural or semi-rural communities where children have fewer educational opportunities.

On December 7, in Budapest, the Institute of International Education's European Office presented the 2015 IIE Europe Award for Excellence to Robert Stanley to recognize his accomplishments in promoting closer educational relations between the United States and countries in various world regions including Europe through his leadership of ASSIST.

Adrijus Beniusis, the recipient of a prosthetic leg, walked the runway in a fashion show in Palanga, Lithuania "Jievaro tiltu 2015." Adrijus lost his leg to bone cancer in 2014. With a help from Prosthetics in Motion, Wiggle Your Toes, Ottobock, KFF and love and care of Marcie and John Kazickas he received his new prosthetic leg in May 2015. 

On Dec. 10, The Globe, Lithuanian Artist Ray Bartkus's installation, was presented in the Exhibition Space at the Delegates entrance of the UN Headquarters. Mr. Jan K. Eliasson, Deputy Secretary - General of the UN presented the artwork and thanked Lithuania for its active role in the UN Security Council.

On December 10th, in Lithuania, Andrius Cerskus and Arminas Vareika from the "Power of Basketball"(social responsibility program sponsored by KFF) met with former President of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus. Success stories and good practices of the project were discussed during the meeting.

On November 28th, the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre Support Foundation "the Lyre of Orpheus", supported by Kazickas Family Foundation, held its annual traditional Opera Ball. All received funds will be distributed to support young opera soloists, ballet dancers and musicians. 

Gabija, an ASSIST scholar at Stony Brook School, was visited by the KFF team members Neila Baumiliene and Ginte Geneder. The Kazickas Family Foundation sponsors three ASSIST scholars from Lithuania who are spending 2015-2016 school year in different US independent schools.