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During the second week of January in Vilnius, Lithuania, the second stage of selection process for 2016-2017 ASSIST scholars has been concluded with great excitement. Zenonas Bedalis from Kazickas Family Foundation organized the interview process that took place over two days.

Wear Forget Me Not bloom close to your heart. It is a sign of rememberance and respect.

Aleksandra Kazickas Lithuanian school's students, teachers and parents remembered Lithuanian freedom fighters day - January 13th.

KFF A. Kazickas Grant Program supports Lithuanian Heritage Schools in the US. Encouraged by additional matching grant up to 1,000 USD that motivates schools to organize fund-raising events in order to support their school work, Vincas Krėvė Lithuanian School in Philadelphia for the first time held Christmas Fair.

All of us at The Kazickas Family Foundation offer our best wishes for the New Year to everyone!

Let's join President D. Grybauskaite and support one another building the future of Lithuania together!

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.