Going door to door in Puerto Rico, checking on the well-being of residents after Hurricane Maria, the team from humanitarian organization Project HOPE  discovered Carlos Ortiz (not his real name) in significant need.

Deep into the course of his treatment for cancer, Ortiz was dependent on a regular schedule of medication, a schedule that was abruptly cut off, with no clear timeline for resumption, as a result of the infrastructure devastation caused by hurricane Maria.

When word of Ortiz's situation got back to the Project HOPE command center in Virginia, the management team there went through the available resources and connections in their mega-Rolodex of people and companies with “oversized hearts,” as VP Franklin Guerrero puts it.

Within four days—“still too long,” Guerrero tells me—they had arranged a donation of medication from its maker, as well as shipping assistance through the auspices of  what Guerrero terms “another angel." Ortiz was back on schedule and on his way to better health.

This, in microcosm, is the Project HOPE methodology: an entrepreneurial, bootstrapping approach to philanthropy that aims to leverage every donated dollar through contributed supplies and professional services, and by teaming up with local onsite community support.

Read the full article by Micah Solomon about Project HOPE from Forbes