page_title: Near East Foundation
section_title: Affiliates
hierarchical_section_title: Near East Foundation / Affiliates
caption_attribution_description: Poster from the special campaign of the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief (renamed by 1916 the American Committee for Relief in the Near East, which worked energetically throughout the war to raise funds and provide relief.
context_page_description: The Near East Foundation, formerly the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief, then the American Committee for Relief in the Near East, and later Near East Relief, is a Syracuse, New York-based American international social 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 organised the world's first great humanitarian project of the United States, in the beginning of the 20th century.
context_section_description: Near East Foundation - Armenia
  Near East Foundation - Jordan
  Near East Foundation - Lebanon
  Near East Foundation - Mali
  Near East Foundation - Morocco
  Near East Foundation - Palestine
  Near East Foundation - Sudan
  Near East Foundation - United Kingdom
  Near East Relief Historical Society
  World Service Commission
caption: This poster is part the special campaign of the American Committee "Near East Relief" in 1918
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