abstract:The Near East Foundation (NEF), formerly the American Committee for Armenian and Assyrian Relief (ACASR),ASKS FOR $5,000,000 TO SUCCOR ARMENIA; American Committee Starts Biggest Undertaking of Mercy Since Relief of Belgium., New York Times, October 4, 1916 and later the American Committee for Relief in the Near East is a Syracuse, New York-based American international social and economic development organization established in 1915.