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. For more information on adding repositories to your organization, see "Creating a new repository," "Transferring a repository owned by your personal account," and "Transferring a repository owned by your organization."

  1. Settings icon in the user bar
    In the upper-right corner of any page, click your profile photo, then click Settings.

  2. User settings for organizations
    In your user settings sidebar, click Organizations.

  3. Button for creating a new organization
    In the "Organizations" section, click New organization.

  4. Field to type an organization name
    Under "Organization name", type a name for your organization.

  5. Field to enter a contact email address
    Type a contact email for your organization.

  6. Click Create organization.