The nature of the relationships between government and nonprofits can be classified into three categories - supplementary, complementary and adversarial. This paper scrutinizes the patterns of public private partnership in running the service centers of life reconstruction in the two most devasted counties in central Taiwan, i.e., Taichung and Nantou. Its analysis attempts to cover all phases of disaster management and select consensus formation, resource sharing, administrative coordination and goal attainment in terms of four key measures to evaluate how a public-private partnership was formed and practiced after local governments subcontracted non-profit organizations to conduct welfare delivery and employment promotion. Finally, this paper examines the issues that emerged in the implementation of ther 921 earthquake recovery programs which aimed to bring the communities back to normalcy and summarizes the the problems in the way of the advancement of the partnership between the government and religious organizations.