For decades, there have been two primary ways Americans deal with recovery from disasters.

The primary method is to deal with the American Red Cross. But a series of excellent articles from ProPublica (which I wrote about here) revealed how the Red Cross is a calcified bureaucracy that has a hard time fulfilling its primary task of getting to a disaster quickly and delivering aid.

Then there’s the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which had its own record of botching assignments. Just ask people in New Orleans what they thought of FEMA after Hurricane Katrina. Their responses won’t be polite.

One relatively new organization that is worth noting is World Central Kitchen created by José Andrés.

José Andrés is a celebrity chef in Washington, D.C., who heads a chain of restaurants that I can’t afford. But he’s always been interested in philanthropy. Even though World Central Kitchen isn’t a very large organization (its 2015 Form 990 shows a budget of only $600,000), it seems to be doing all sorts of things. The competitive advantage they have is that they have a network of volunteer chefs, and chefs who head restaurants know how to feed people.

We’ve shown that it (disaster relief) can be done better, quicker, faster, more affordable and helping the local economies improve in the process.” -Jose Andres

Read the full article by Martin Morse Wooster about Puerto Rico disaster recovery from Philanthropy Daily