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Kosciuszko Foundation Dictionary

The new electronic version of the Kosciuszko Foundation dictionary is now available online.

KOSCIUSZKO HAS ARRIVED!

In bookstores now is The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution, by Alex Storozynski, the first comprehensive biography of the most legendary figure in Polish history. Also available for purchase at the Kosciuszko Foundation.

Who was Thaddeus Kosciuszko? Read the story here.

ADASKIN STRING TRIO RETURNS
TO KOSCIUSZKO FOUNDATION
SUNDAY, APRIL 26
Thomas Gallant, Oboe, Guest Artist
Janiewicz Featured in Program

The Adaskin String Trio returns to the Kosciuszko Foundation Chamber Music Series on Sunday, April 26, at 3 PM. Their program includes the Divertimento in G by Classic Polish composer Feliks Janiewicz, as well as Mozart’s popular Oboe Quartet. Beethoven’s Trio in C and a Dohnanyi Serenade fill out the program. Tickets are $25, including a reception with the artists afterward. More info....

LEE KO-EUN TOP PRIZE WINNER IN
2009 KOSCIUSZKO FOUNDATION
CHOPIN PIANO COMPETITION

Lee Ko-Eun, a student of Jerome Lowenthal at the Juilliard School, won the $5,000 First Prize in the Kosciuszko Foundation’s 2009 Chopin Piano Competition. Ms. Lee, a 22-year old Master’s candidate, also won the $500 Jan Gorbaty Memorial Prize for the best performance of a work by Chopin. More info...

Polish Vets Support WWII Essay Contest

First Prize $2,000, Second Prize, $1,000

NEW YORK: The Polish Army Veterans Association of America, District 2, has teamed up with the Kosciuszko Foundation to offer a $2,000 prize for the best essay written by an American student between ages 18 and 22 on the worldwide significance of the 1939 invasion of Poland. The second prize, paid for by the Kosciuszko Foundation, will be $1,000. More info...

Banker’s network with NBP President
President of the National Bank of Poland, Sławomir Skrzypek met with Polish-American leaders and bankers Friday night at a cocktail party at the Kosciuszko Foundation where he spoke about the economic situation in Poland. Read the story here.
Watch move: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNJelLvnMcw

Kosciuszko Foundation Ball to Honor
Polish & Slavic Federal Credit Union

KOSCIUSZKO FOUNDATION CHAIRMAN Witold Sulimirski has announced that the chair of this year's ball at the Waldorf Astoria will be Bogdan Chmielewski, Chief Executive Officer of the Polish and Slavic Federal Credit Union. With more than $1 billion in assets and 70,000 members, the PSFCU is the largest ethnic credit union in the United States.

Bogdan Chmielewski

The theme of this year's ball on April 25 will be "High Finance and Higher Education."

Tickets for this prestigious black tie event are $275 before April 1, or $300 after. Students pay $200. To purchase tickets please click here.The ball is the Foundation's annual fundraising event which brings together the most successful Poles in America and the Polish diplomatic community for a night of dining, dancing and networking. Proceeds support the educational and cultural mission of the Foundation. More info...

Kosciuszko Foundation Hosts Lunch for Agnieszka Holland
Award-winning film and TV film director Agnieszka Holland visited the Kosciuszko Foundation to talk about a retrospective of her films being shown at the Museum of Modern Art. Read the story here.

Alex Storozynski New President and Executive Director of the Kosciuszko Foundation
Well known journalist, commentator and author Alex Storozynski was elected president and executive director of the Kosciuszko Foundation on November 21, 2008. Read the story here.

DONATE TODAY!
Looking for a way to support Polish culture here in the United States? A donation to the Kosciuszko Foundation is a great way to do that. Click here for a fast and easy way to help us continue in our mission to put on concerts, lectures, exhibitions and other events which showcase the very best that Polish cuture has to offer.

To learn some helpful tips on year-end giving, please click here. There are also ways to make donations directly from your IRA that have certain tax advantages. Read about them here.

Mikolajki at the Kosciuszko Foundation
Come join us on Saturday, December 13th for a wonderful children's progam offerd in assocation with the Polish American Teachers Association. Click here for details.

Holiday Concert
Celebrate the holidays in style on December 14 at 3 PM with a moving holiday concert by the Gregg Smith Singers. Please click here for details. The concert is being presented as part of the Kosciuszko Foundation Chamber Music Series.

Applications Now Being Accepted for the Joseph Tischner Fellowships 2009
Fellowships are open to native Polish or Polish-American Ph.D.s or Ph.D. candidates age 35 or younger. The fellowship is supported in part by a grant from the Kosciuszko Foundation. Click here for more details.

Debutante Applications Now Being Accepted for the Kosciuszko Foundation 74th Annual Dinner and Ball
Presenting your daughter or granddaughter as a debutante at the Kosciuszko Foundation Annual Dinner and Ball is a unique way to honor her. Click here to download the brochure, and here to download an application. To read about last year's Ball, click here. All debutante applications must be received by March 1, 2009. We hope you can join us!

Interested in participating in the Teaching English in Poland Program? Want to learn more?
Watch this short documentary video posted to the KF Blog!

PATA Teaches American Children about Polish History and Culture.
Click here to view video and read the blog.

Pictures from the 73rd Annual Kosciuszko Foundation Annual Dinner and Ball are now available on the Kosciuszko Foundation Flickr photostream. Click here to view!

The Kosciuszko Foundation Dictionary
English-Polish, Polish-English with CD-ROM, contains over 140,000 entries with 400,000 meanings and 100,000 idioms, including British and other usage. More info...