I guess for the right people it could work. I think that will be limited. For those who are not quilters it might be considered outside their comfort zone of picking a binding, backing, batting, and finding someone to finish it up and picking a design, not knowing what edge to edge is, pentagrams, etc. Maybe you could find someone who just likes to quilt and share the expense of the other parts. And then donate the finished products on behalf of both of you.
PS One of my pet peeves is that one of my quilting friends puts a label on all her quilts. Made by "her". But she quilts by check and never puts the name of the quilter! I ask her about this on the regular and she said she paid so she doesn't have to!!