A donation outage mid-campaign
A payment provider incident during a fundraising push can quietly stop donations while your site still looks fine. Crowswatch flags the provider issue as it starts, not after the campaign window closes.
Nonprofit sponsorship
Operational monitoring for organisations doing important work.
When donation systems, websites or communication platforms fail, the impact reaches far beyond downtime. Crowswatch helps nonprofit teams understand provider outages, infrastructure issues and operational risks before they become major disruptions.
Sponsored access for approved nonprofit organisations. We usually respond within a few working days.
The operational gap
Why operational visibility matters for nonprofits.
Nonprofits often depend heavily on external SaaS providers, payment platforms and cloud services, but rarely have a dedicated operations team watching them. When something upstream breaks, the first signal is often a supporter complaint. Crowswatch helps close that gap.
Volunteer signups go dark
A DNS change or propagation issue can take down signup and event pages without warning. Crowswatch surfaces domain and DNS drift before supporters hit errors.
Supporter emails stop landing
DMARC, SPF or MX problems can silently break delivery to your mailing list. Crowswatch watches email-related domain health, not just whether the website responds.
A certificate expires before an event
An expired SSL certificate the morning of a major appeal turns supporters away. Crowswatch tracks expiry well ahead of time, so it is a calendar reminder, not an emergency.
A regional provider outage
A Cloudflare or AWS incident can block access for supporters in one region while everything looks fine to you. Crowswatch pulls provider incidents directly from their own status feeds.
What sponsorship gives your team
Less guesswork when something goes wrong.
Approved organisations receive a sponsored Crowswatch plan: up to 100 monitored services and access to the core Crowswatch monitoring platform, for 12 months.
One operational view
See provider incidents, APIs, domains and critical services in a single operational view.
Early warning
Know when external providers have issues before your supporters report them.
Domain and certificate safety
Catch SSL, DNS and email-domain problems before a campaign or event depends on them.
Clear attribution
Understand which provider is behind a disruption, so you can communicate clearly with supporters.
One shared picture
Give your whole team, and your trustees, the same real-time view of what is happening.
A record you can report on
Keep a history of incidents for board, funder and trustee reporting.
Eligibility
Who the programme is designed for.
We prioritise smaller nonprofit organisations where operational disruption could meaningfully affect fundraising, communications or community services.
Registered charities
Community organisations
Open-source projects
Humanitarian programmes
How to apply
A short conversation, not a sales call.
01
Apply
Send us a few details through the contact form with the nonprofit topic selected. No sales call.
02
Review
We review eligibility and how monitoring would help your work. We usually respond within a few working days.
03
Activation
Approved organisations receive a sponsored plan: up to 100 monitored services and access to the core Crowswatch monitoring platform, for 12 months, renewable after review.
When you apply, it helps to tell us:
- Your organisation name and website
- Your mission, in a sentence or two
- Roughly how big your team is
- Which systems and services are critical to you
- Why monitoring matters for your work
Sponsorship places are limited and reviewed periodically.
Let your team focus on the mission, not the monitoring.
We want to help organisations doing meaningful work stay informed when critical services experience issues.
We usually respond within a few working days.