Endowments; Civilian war relief; Armenian question; New York (N.Y.); American Committee for Relief in the Near East
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Date
[between 1915 and 1919?]
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
Note (Reel no.)
Reel 83
Note
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The Near East Foundation (NEF), formerly the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief (ACASR), then the American Committee for Relief in the Near East (ACRNE), and later Near East Relief, is a Syracuse, New York-based American international s ocial and economic development organization. Founded in 1915, it is the United States' oldest nonsectarian international development organization and the second American humanitarian organization to be chartered by an act of Congress. Near East Relief organized the world's first large-scale, modern humanitarian project in response to the unfolding Armenian and Assyrian genocides. Known as the Near East Foundation since 1930, NEF pioneered many of the strategies employed by the world's leading development organizations. In the past 100 years NEF has worked with partner communities in more than 40 countries. The foundation had organized the world's first great humanitarian project of the United States, in the beginning of the 20th century." [SOURCE: "Near East Foundation." Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_East_Foundation. Accessed 19 Sep. 2018.]