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, all members of an organization can add new repositories, and members with owner or admin permissions can transfer existing repositories.

  1. In the upper-right corner of any page, click your profile photo, then click Settings. 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. Button for creating a new organization

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

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

  6. Click Create organization.