1. c. Congress granted the ARC its federal charter in 1905, establishing the ARC as the organization to perform services to comply with theGeneva Convention. This included creating and maintaining a system for national and international relief during disasters and developing disaster prevention measures. Congress last amended the charter on May11,2007.
2. e. Lutheran Disaster Response (LDR) successfully played this role of coordinating NGO/FBO response activities during the 2004 Florida hurricanes. LDR coordinated events through daily (Florida) statewide conference calls, which were hosted and initiated at LDR's headquarters in Chicago (Framingham, personal communication, March 16, 2010).