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While conducting AKGP for the Lithuanian Heritage schools of the US, KFF Vilnius Bureau organized a meeting with the representatives of the Ministry of Education and Science and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania. 

A display with photographs, letters and an excerpt of memoirs by Dr. Joseph P. Kazickas about his friend artist Vytautas Kasiulis (1918-1995) was opened in Vytautas Kasiulis Art Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania. 

Encouraged by Marty Conlon, Manager of the NBA International Operations in New York, and Morgan O'Brian at the Sports Diplomacy Program/the State Department in Washington DC, KFF invited US Embassy's Public Affairs Officers from Vilnius Rima Vydmantas and Rasa Baukuviene, as well as PAO Minsk - Robin Solomon to share information on Sports Diplomacy. 

NBA International Operations NY office manager Marty Conlon visited KFF NYC office to discuss KFF and NBA cooperation in helping KFF grantees in Lithuania with the youth summer camps, clinics and events. 

Dr. Irina Matijosaitiene (center) from the Kaunas University of Technology, first recipient of Dr. Joseph P. Kazickas Post Doctoral Fellowship (JPKF) at Yale University for the 2013-2014 academic year arrived to New Haven, CT. 

On November 5th, 1998 Kazickas Family Foundation signed their first check in the sum of $ 200 000 for the reconstruction of Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem, Israel. On February 16, 1999 the Kazickas Family Foundation Vilnius office was opened. Over fifteen years, the foundation gave grants for over $ 10 000 000 in support of various charitable organizations and projects in Lithuania and worldwide. In January of 2014, Victoria Kazickas, one of the Kazickas eleven grandchildren visited Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania, Department of the Lithuanians Abroad, Vilnius, organized a teleconference with the Lithuanian Foundations Abroad sharing information in order to find possibilities to fund projects of the Lithuanian NGOs from Abroad.