bothhands.org

What It Is

Both Hands is a U.S.-based nonprofit fundraising platform whose core mission is to help Christian adoptive families raise money for adoption expenses while organizing volunteers to provide one-day home repair, cleaning, painting, landscaping, and similar services for widows. It is not a typical enterprise SaaS product; rather, it is a nonprofit project operations platform that combines online crowdfunding pages, offline volunteer service, and hands-on project coaching.

Core Capabilities

The platform supports several types of projects: adoption fundraising, orphan care ministry fundraising, fundraising for post-adoption medical/treatment/mental health expenses, and service projects initiated by companies, groups, or friends. The process is relatively standardized: first, assemble a core team of about 10 or more people; then find a widow in need of help; next, raise sponsorships through prewritten fundraising letters and a crowdfunding page on the Both Hands website; and finally, complete the service day. The platform also provides a project toolkit accessible 24/7, along with staff coaching throughout the process.

Pricing and Fees

Both Hands clearly states that it does not take administrative fees from donations made to adoption or orphan care projects. If donors do not cover credit card and processing fees, the platform says it covers those costs itself to ensure that 100% of donations go toward the project. Its operating funds are raised through separate donations. The main text also mentions that eligible projects may receive a $3,000 matching grant and a $1,000 supply grant.

Pros and Cons

Its strengths are a highly differentiated model that both addresses trust issues in fundraising and generates tangible community service. It is also friendly to families with little fundraising experience, since it provides templates, toolkits, and hands-on coaching. The drawbacks are its clearly religious and geographic focus, which makes its target audience relatively narrow. In addition, publicly available information does not disclose key enterprise software capabilities such as permission management, third-party integrations, APIs, data security, or compliance.

Who It’s For and Access from China

Both Hands is best suited for U.S.-based Christian adoptive families, churches, orphan care organizations, and volunteer groups that want to participate in charitable service. From a SaaS procurement perspective, it is not suitable as a general-purpose fundraising CRM or enterprise-grade donation management system. The main text does not provide information on access from mainland China, so its availability there is unknown.