Commission for Relief in Belgium (CRB, or simply Belgian Relief) was an international, predominantly American, organization that arranged for the supply...

generosity abroad. During World War I, the Committee for Relief in Belgium (CRB), which sent food to the hungry in that war-torn country, received $387 million...

disaster relief was its contribution to the 1915 Committee for Relief in Belgium headed by Herbert Hoover, to prevent starvation in Belgium after the...

Herbert Hoover organized the Committee for Relief in Belgium (USA) and the Commission for Relief in Belgium (Belgium). After the war, the University...

online Charlotte Kellogg, Commission for Relief in Belgium, Women of Belgium turning tragedy to triumph (1917) 'Belgian Neutrality and its Reinterpretation...

Herbert Hoover, the American chairman of the Committee for Relief in Belgium. Hoover arranged for the delivery of food shipments and persuaded the Allies...

Herbert Hoover set up aid organizations: the Committee for Relief in Belgium (CRB) and the National Committee for Help and Food. By the end of the war, these...

Rescue Committee (IRC) is a global humanitarian aid, relief, and development nongovernmental organization. Founded in 1933 as the International Relief Association...

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the...

global poverty, founded in 1942 and led by Oxfam International. It began as the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief in Oxford, UK, in 1942, to alleviate World...

1949. Finnish Relief Fund (World War II, another of Hoover's initiatives) Committee for Relief in Belgium (World War I) American Relief Administration...

stationed at Namur from May to June, 1915 as a member of the Committee for Relief in Belgium. In 1890, he was appointed a commissioner of the New York City...

During World War I, Childers was involved in politically difficult work with the Committee for Relief in Belgium. Due to the changing diplomatic situation...

achievement and service in the military, it has since become the main state honour for recognising achievements in public life in the United Kingdom. The...

gained useful experience by running the Commission for Relief in Belgium which fed seven million Belgians and two million northern French during World War...

Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA, pronounced /ˈʌnrə/ UN-rə) is a UN agency that supports the relief and human...

in Europeans' living memory, first from Belgium in 1914, later in eastern Europe, cf. the civil wars and new national boundaries of 1917–19. Relief was...

Europe since 1914. After the Germans invaded Belgium in 1914, Hoover set up the Belgian Relief Committee to alleviate the devastation and starvation that...

d'Alimentation (CNSA, "National Relief and Food Committee"; Dutch: Nationaal Hulp- en Voedingscomité) was a relief organization created in 1914 to distribute humanitarian...

widespread economic collapse in Belgium with shortages and widespread unemployment, but also with a religious revival. Relief organisations, which relied...

Administrator. She was also a member of the American section of Committee for Relief of Belgian Prisoners in Germany. Though she never supported the suffrage movement...

Élisabeth) was a Belgian decoration created by royal decree in October 1916 to recognise exceptional services to Belgium in the relief of the suffering...

Famine Relief Act of 1921 was formed by the United States Congress on February 24, 1919, with a budget of 100 million dollars ($1,757,000,000 in 2024)...

duties in the office won him an international reputation for tact, zeal, and efficiency. Whitlock ensured food aid sent by the Committee for Relief in Belgium...

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, also known as Joint or JDC, is a Jewish relief organization based in New York City. Since 1914 the organisation...

British Fund for World Jewish Relief formerly Central British Fund for German Jewry (CBF) which currently operates under the name World Jewish Relief (WJR),...

fiction authors List of Canadian historians List of Canadian women writers in French List of Quebec writers List of French Canadian writers from outside...

(PICMME) in 1951 to the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration (ICEM) in 1952, to the Intergovernmental Committee for Migration (ICM) in 1980...

East Relief-trustee. 1915–1918: Moral Aims of World War I—member Executive Committee. 1915–1919: National Committee on Relief of Children in Belgium—member...

Eight days later, the five men decided to rename the committee to the "International Committee for Relief to the Wounded". From 26 to 29 October 1863, the...