The Relief Committee for Greeks of Asia Minor (1917–1921) was a relief organization established during World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

 in response to the persecutions of Greeks in the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

. The committee was also known as simply the Greek Relief Committee.

Executive Board

• Chairman: Frank W. Jackson
• Honorary Chairman: Jacob Gould Schurman
• Vice-Chairman: Basile D. Dugundji
• Secretary: John P. Xenides
• Treasurer: Abraham E. Kazan
  Abraham E. Kazan
  Abraham E. Kazan is considered the "father of U.S. cooperative housing".- History :Abraham Kazan was among the Engineers of the idea of cooperative housing. Growing up as an eyewitness to appalling tenement conditions, Kazan believed that housing was a vital obstacle for the average person. The...
  
   (resigned in November 1917), Rollin P. Grant

Operations

The GRC worked through a network of foreign consuls, missionaries and relief workers located at various points in the Ottoman empire. In doing so, its working methods were similar to those of the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief (ACASR), which was also in action during World War I. It also cooperated with American diplomatic institutions in Athens and Thessaloniki to aid refugees arriving from Turkey.