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

When you create a new organization from scratch, it doesn't have any repositories associated with it. At any time, members of the organization's Owners or Admin teams can add new repositories, or transfer existing repositories.

  1. In the top right corner of any page, click . Settings icon in the user bar
  2. In your user settings sidebar, click Organizations. User settings for organizations

  3. In the "Organizations" section, click New organization. New organization button

  4. Under "Organization name", give the organization a name. New organization name

  5. Under "Contact email," type the email address of a person who can be contacted for more information about the organization.

  6. Click Create organization.