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Collaborating with groups in organizations

Groups of people can collaborate across many projects at the same time in organization accounts.

About organizations

Organizations are shared accounts where businesses and open-source projects can collaborate across many projects at once, with sophisticated security and administrative features.

About your organization dashboard

As an organization member, you can visit your organization's dashboard throughout the day to stay updated on recent activity and keep track of issues and pull requests you're working on or following in the organization.

Best practices for organizations

Learn GitHub-recommended practices for your organization.

Creating a new organization from scratch

Create an organization to apply fine-grained access permissions to repositories.

Accessing your organization's settings

The organization account settings page provides several ways to manage the account, such as billing, team membership, and repository settings.

Customizing your organization's profile

You can share information about your organization by customizing your organization's profile.

About your organization’s news feed

You can use your organization's news feed to keep up with recent activity on repositories owned by that organization.