Organizing relief organizations

Question: Is it possible to have an anarchist relief organization?
Ans: Maybe, I haven't seen one yet.

Question: Is it possible to have a hierarchical organization relief org?
Ans: Sure, there are plenty of examples.

Question: How about one in between the two; one that is devoid of patriarchy, and racism and all the things that plague the larger society, and a really good mission,yet one that still has a top down structure; one in which those that volunteer are not included in the decision-making process?
Ans: Yes I think the constraints on this organization, especially the temporality of the majority of volunteers, make this decision-making structure necessary.

Question: Can we get done what needs to get done in a relief organization, while living the principles we'd like to see in our utopia?
Answer: The idea of relief is to provide people with their immediate and long-term needs to get back on their feet (in the absence of government help) and assist in making the community more sustainable than it was before. We don't need patriarchy to acheive this. It will probably hinder the effort ultimately. Of course we don't want to hinder the mission (ie relief) from some misconceived notions of patriarchy. But whom is to arbitrate here? Who is to decide what is right or wrong? People still steeped in notions of patriarchal culture or a small core of activists who have unwrapped their layers. Hmmm. No answer here.