The Importance of Mutual Aid

I'm interested in things like the lifeboats which people might not see through the lens of mutual aid. There's an assumption I think a lot of people probably think that there's some kind of state involvement with the lifeboats right? The societies that exist to prevent cruelty to animals and children and that kind of thing aren't state funded either in the UK um can you think of other examples of mutual aid that people might have sort of not realized are entirely driven by society and not state well I suppose the best uh one of the best examples recently in the US context is the establishment of the common ground collective after Hurricane Katrina.