When word of the dam's failure was telegraphed to Pittsburgh, Frick and other members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club gathered to form the Pittsburgh Relief Committee for assistance to the flood victims as well as determining never to speak publicly about the club or the flood.

This was organized by the Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor, composed of British philanthropists who preferred it as a solution to continuing to financially support them in London.

The area, said to have previously been a slave market, was first settled in 1787 by 400 formerly enslaved Black Britons sent from London, England, under the auspices of the Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor, an organisation set up by the British abolitionist, Granville Sharp.

** United Methodist Committee on Relief ( New York City ) ( UMCOR )

* July 31 – The Oxford Committee for Famine Relief ( OXFAM ) is founded.

The area, said to have previously been a slave market, was first settled in 1787 by 400 formerly enslaved Black Britons sent from London, England, under the auspices of the Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor, an organisation set up by the British abolitionist, Granville Sharp.

One of her first activities with the ILP found Pankhurst distributing food to poor men and women through the Committee for the Relief of the Unemployed.

Hermesch, Assistant Surgeon U. S. Navy and the Relief Committee at Purvis, we know that there were 83 dead, 340 wounded and 1935 destitute in the town of Purvis.

They refuse to make known to the Relief Committee the number of sick among them.

The new immigrants were unwilling ( or perhaps unable ) to cooperate with the Relief Committee: among the list of 1, 153 victims treated at the makeshift hospital in the Central High School, prepared by the Pennsylvania Department of Health, no names of Eastern European derivation are listed.

Sismondi and his contemporary Robert Owen, who expressed similar but less systematic thoughts in 1817 Report to the Committee of the Association for the Relief of the Manufacturing Poor, both identified the cause of economic cycles as overproduction and underconsumption, caused in particular by wealth inequality.

In 1942, IRA and ERC joined forces under the name International Relief and Rescue Committee, which was later shortened to the International Rescue Committee.

Niebuhr was among the group of 51 prominent Americans who formed the International Relief Association ( IRA ) that is today known as the International Rescue Committee ( IRC ).

* Disaster Relief Committee

* Imam Khomeini Relief Committee, provides sickness, maternity, and work injury benefits to some workers in the private sector.

Student life adapted to the wartime era with efforts such as the War Relief Committee, blood drives and War Bonds initiatives.

After becoming Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Issa has become a vocal advocate for investigations into the Obama administration, including the Troubled Assets Relief Program, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, corruption in Afghanistan, WikiLeaks, and the Food and Drug Administration, among other issues.

In 1931, he was appointed to Herbert Hoover's President's Committee for Unemployment Relief, chaired by Walter S. Gifford, then-President of AT & T.

* 1915-1919: National Committee on Relief of Children in Belgium -- member Organizing and Executive Committees.

* 1919: Committee on Relief for Protestant Churches in Devastated Regions in Europe in World War I.

Emergency Committee for Relief of Refugees in Greece -- Chairman.

Vice Premier Yu, who was also chairman of the Committee of Disaster Relief and Prevention, had his resignation accepted.

The depression seemed to continue for many years, and the figures given by the Hinckley District Relief Committee in July, 1864, make interesting reading -

In 1942, the Emergency Rescue Committee and the American branch of the European-based International Relief Association joined forces under the name the International Relief and Rescue Committee, which was later shortened to the International Rescue Committee ( IRC ).

Botswana is one of the 15 focus countries for PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief, and has received more than $ 230 million since the program began in January 2004 through September 2007.

Biafra also received aid from non-state actors, including Joint Church Aid, Holy Ghost Fathers of Ireland, Caritas International, MarkPress and U. S. Catholic Relief Services.

Relief pitcher Matt Pike received the Reliever of the Year award for his league leading 24 saves.

Eleven Victoria Crosses were awarded to the defenders of Rorke's Drift, seven of them to soldiers of the 2nd / 24th Foot – the most ever received in a single action by one regiment ( although not, as commonly thought, the most won in a single action or the most won in a day: 16 were won at the Battle of Inkerman, on 5 November 1854 ; 28 were won during the Second Relief of Lucknow, 14 – 22 November 1857 ).

He received the Medal of Honor during the China Relief Expedition.

By the end of October 2003, according to the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Department, compensation had been awarded to 554, 895 people for injuries received and 15, 310 survivors of those killed.

Initially, banks received part of a $ 700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program ( TARP ) intended to stabilize the economy and thaw the frozen credit markets.

The bank received $ 12 million in Troubled Asset Relief Program ( TARP ) money.

Al Rubaie received international acclaim for his achievements in isolating Al Qai ' ida from the Sunni mainstream and bringing the Sunni community to the negotiating table with the Shia-led Government as well as his protection of Iraq's vulnerable Christian minority and was awarded the " The Annual Prize For Peace Making In The Middle East " at the House of Lords on 18 February 2009 presented by Lord Hylton of the Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East.

His family claims to have last seen him in 1999, and to have received only a single e-Mail from him the following year, showing photographs of the school where he was working for the Canadian Relief Foundation.

On a 1995 tour to Japan, the Hangovers received attention by donating half of their tour profits to the Kobe Earthquake Relief Fund ; on a subsequent tour to Japan and Korea in the spring of 1998, they performed on Inter-FM, a Western-music radio station, in addition to other performances at such venues as the Tokyo-American Club, the United States naval base in Atsugi, Seoul National University, Ewha University and concluded the tour at the Seoul National Arts Center as a guest group for the Seoul National Orchestra.

Up to 1984 qualifying insurance contracts ( including endowment policies ) received tax relief on the premiums known as LAPR ( Life Assurance Premium Relief ).

The donations were made by Thrivent Financial members through Lutheran World Relief, ELCA Domestic Disaster Response, LCMS World Relief / Human Care, and WELS Committee on Relief received supplemental funds when so designated.

The Relief Committee would act in tandem with the National Bank of Boyertown ( now known as National Penn Bank ), to receive and distribute all contributions received from all sources.

FreshMinistries received $ 10 million of $ 100 million in abstinence-focused grants awarded by the United States Agency for International Development, part of the President Bush's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.

In addition, Wells Fargo was concerned about the image of a bank sponsoring a sporting event that had received Federal funding under the Troubled Assets Relief Program.

Relief Valley and Relief Reservoir were so named because of the assistance some emigrants received there from residents of the Sonora area.

Following Tate's Comic Relief appearance with McFly, and speculation of her non-existent feud with David Schwimmer, it received slightly more publicity than series one in the run-up to the first episode.

One of the main efforts of the Catholic Relief Services has been to review and correct compensation packages received by those located along the pipeline, as well as advocating for fair salaries for local workers contracted by the oil companies.