Mutual aid has traditionally been an organizational model where voluntary, collaborative exchanges of resources and services for common benefit take place amongst community members to overcome social,
A mutual-aid soup kitchen Conder Street Mission Hall, 1881
A benefit society, fraternal benefit society, or fraternal benefit order is a voluntary association formed to provide mutual aid, benefit, for instance, insurance for relief from sundry difficulties.
Mutual aid
…police. Bail funds, which are community organizations that pays cash bail for people in need for free, is another example of a mutual aid organization. Benefit society Communal work…
Pin button issued by "The Knights and Ladies of Security" of Topeka, Kansas