OUR MEMBERS
The Lithuanian Foundation’s members are people, groups, and organizations committed to the preservation of the Lithuanian language, culture and traditions inside and outside Lithuania’s borders. Through their contributions, LF Members have shown that collectively they can make a greater difference toward achieving this goal.
Valdas Adamkus
President Emeritus of the Republic of Lithuania. Lithuanian Foundation Member
Jūratė Caspersen
The President of the Switzerland Lithuanian Community, member of the World Lithuanian Community, Jurate Caspersen became an LF member in 2016.
Lithuanian Foundation Member
Šarūnas Daugirdas
“All four Daugirdas brothers and our parents are LF members – we support Lithuanian heritage!”
Lithuanian Foundation Member and Scholarship Recipient
Politician, music historian, professor. LF member since 1991
Aldona Smulkstys
Through her LF contributions, Aldona Smulkstys of Chicago chose to memorialize Partizanai, Lithuania freedom fighters, who fought and perished in the battle against the Soviet occupation of Lithuania after World War II. For many years, Mrs. Smulkstys also served as the recording secretary at the Foundation annual meetings for many years.
Lithuanian Foundation Member
Joana Regina Lauciute
Henrikas ir Ilona Laucius gave their granddaughter, Joana Regina Lauciute LF membership for her first birthday.
Lithuanian Foundation Member
Virgis Stakėnas
Lithuanian Foundation Member – Singer, songwriter, producer, journalist.
Sandra Scedrina
New LF member in 2016, photographer Sandra Scedrina, often assists at Foundation events.
Lithuanian Foundation Member
Mantas Naris
Mantas Naris’ parents, Dalia and Marius Naris, as a Christmas present, joined their son to the Lithuanian Foundation members.
Lithuanian Foundation Member and Scholarship Recipient
Membership is the Lithuanian Foundation’s greatest asset, with over 8,000 members worldwide. Member contributions have built the Lithuanian Foundation’s capital fund, whose earnings finance the Foundation’s grant-making.
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Thank you for helping me receive one of the most important gifts I could get, education. I am truly grateful and inspired to help others when I am in a position to. Nothing is stronger than a pride for your own heritage, and your generosity only grows my pride in Lithuanian culture.
LF member and scholarship recipient, Washington State University Vancouver, WA, USA
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You are a unique organization providing a unique service to Lithuanian heritage, it’s preservation, cultivation, and expansion. Today, it would be difficult to count how many educational, cultural, and youth events have been made possible by the Foundation, how many books and textbooks have been published, how many young people have been supported by scholarships.
President Emeritus of the Republic of Lithuania. Lithuanian Foundation Member
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If I want to be somebody, I must be a Lithuanian since that is what I was born. The more that I nurture my Lithuanian roots internally, the more likely I will become somebody. The biggest problem – getting lost in the global, virtual world in which we live.
Architect, leader of the rock group “Antis”, singer, one of the original members of Sajudis
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All Lithuanians who support Lithuania‘s interests and support Lithuanian activities in the US and the Lithuanian Found are truly making a difference. I wish the utmost success to the Lithuanian Foundation in pursuing its goals.
Politiciam, music historian, professor. LF member since 1991
