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Teachers and coaches are role models that lead students through many challenges of life. No question it's one of the most important jobs that has a power to make or break young person's future and affect the path he or she will take. Investment in Youth Can coaches is one of the main priorities the program focuses on. Every few months they are invited to a continuous education seminar where they can learn from the experts and each other new effective ways to teach, to lead and to build successful teams.

On Saturday, February 29, 2020 Yale MacMillan Center Baltic Studies Program is inviting all to a symposium titled "KGB Surveillance in the Soviet Baltic Republics: Documentary Evidence and Coping with the Past."

The Kazickas Family Foundation and Lithuanian Language Association are inviting all to nominate the candidates for an Award in Memory of Petras Butenas and His Student Alexandra Kazickas.

It is exciting to hear that philanthropic work of the Kazickas Family Foundation was recognized with the Gabriele Petkevicaite-Bite memorial award "Serve Lithuania" by Lithuanian Government.

On February 15th The Kazickas Family Foundation in collaboration with the Literary Museum of A. Pushkin in Vilnius hosted a presentation of the Russian edition of “Odyssey of Hope” - a book on the life story of Dr. Joseph P. Kazickas (1918 – 2014) and his wife Alexandra Kazickas (1920 – 2011).

The Kazickas family has been investing in Lithuania's future and next generation of change makers for many years. It is exciting to see young Lithuanian scientists taking advantage of the opportunities the world has to offer and learning from the top world-class researchers and scientists. So far more than 20 students from Lithuania had an opportunity to do internship with NASA at Ames Research Center since 2014.

On behalf of everyone at the Kazickas Family Foundation we'd like to congratulate two very special individuals who have been working with the foundation for many years - Sister Igne Marijošius and prof. Guntis Šmidchens! On Lithuania's Restoration Day, President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda thanked 34 individuals for their dedicated work for Lithuania and honored them with a special merit award. Among all the extraordinary recipients, were Sister Igne Marijošius and prof. Guntis Šmidchens.

As we celebrate Independence Day, February 16, 2020 and the start of the jubilee year of Alexandra Kazickas (6/17/1920-6/17/2011) our family matriarch, we would like to share her sentiments about her love of Lietuva, the country of her birth that was brutally taken away. She was a woman of strong character who kept her faith despite the uncertainty of life in those war-torn years.

"Youth Can" program, ran by the Kazickas Family Foundation, encouraged the participants in all 16 small towns to organize the winter runs for their local communities. Local Lithuanian magazine "Žmonės" chats with "Youth Can" manager Arminas Vareika about the idea, the goals and effect of such events on youth and their communities.

It has become an annual tradition for Jurate and John Kazickas to spend few very busy January days in Lithuania. However, this time their trip was really special, because Jurate's husband Roger Altman joined them as well.