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Dr. V. Kudirka Lithuanian School held fund-raising event in order to receive the Kazickas Family Foundation Matching Grant. KFF A. Kazickas Grant Program supports Lithuanian Heritage Schools in the US. Matching Grant (up to $1,000) motivates schools to organize fund-raising events in order to support their school work.

The Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre Support Foundation, supported by KFF, cordially invites you to its traditional annual Opera Ball that will take place November 12th, 6:30pm at "J9" "Vaidilos" Theatre. The main accent of the Gala Dinner is on Ballet!

Lithuanian Heritage School in Florida "Sauletas Krantas" thanks everyone who gathered to school's fundraiser on October 8th. $440 were raised for school during the event.
"Sauletas Krantas" expresses it's deep grattitute to the Kazickas Family Foundation for a matching grant and a continuous financial support throughout the years.

Seven high school students from Lithuania began their studies at the various US independent schools thanks to the ASSIST program. Kazickas Family Foundation works with ASSIST and invests in the Lithuania's future by supporting three students every year.

During a meeting in September, the Kazickas Family decided to continue the Alexandra Kazickas Grant Program for the fifth year in a row. Alexandra Kazickas was deeply committed to the preservation of a Lithuanian identity for young people growing up in the US.

Thanks to Victoria Kazickas' philanthropy choice, the Kazickas Family Foundation bought a noninvasive hemoglobin monitor to the Santariskes children hospital's pediatric oncology center's bone marrow transplant ward. This highly needed machine will ease patients' diagnostics and treatment.

Monday, October 3, Dr. Una Bergmane will present a lecture titled 

"The Baltic Exception? Western Recognition of the Restoration of Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian Independence in August/September 1991"

at Yale University.

KFF is committed to helping with social issues in Lithuania and organizes social responsibility programs. On September 6th, thanks to recommendations from Ambassadors Ginte Damusyte and dr. Zygimantas Pavilionis, KFF made a request and was kindly invited to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, for a meeting with:

Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture is inviting to its exhibit "No Home to Go To - the Story of Baltic Displaced Persons, 1944-1952" at the New York Public Library's branch of Science, October 7 - December 31, 2016.

In October "Basketball Power" program's participants will meet again for the basketball and mentoring lessons at various nooks and crannies of Lithuania.

Last June over 200 program's children and youth, together with their coaches and guests, closed the second program's season with an exciting event in Utena.