Organizations and teams documentation - GitHub Docs Skip to main content GitHub Docs Version: Free, Pro, & Team Search or ask Copilot Search or ask Copilot Select language: current language is English Search or ask Copilot Search or ask Copilot Open menu Collapse sidebar Expand sidebar Scroll breadcrumbs left * Home * Organizations Scroll breadcrumbs right Organizations * * * Collaborate with groups * About organizations * Organization dashboard * Best practices * Create new organization * Access organization settings * Customize organization profile * Organization news feed * GitHub Actions metrics * Manage membership * Invite users to join * Cancel or edit invitation * Remove a member * Reinstate a member * Export member information * Create accounts for people * Manage organization roles * Roles in an organization * Use organization roles * Predefined roles permissions * Maintain ownership continuity * Add a billing manager * Remove billing manager * Security manager role * Managing moderators * Manage repository access * Manage repository roles * Repository roles * Set base permissions * View people with access * Manage individual access * Manage team access * Manage outside collaborators * Add outside collaborator * Cancel collaborator invitation * Remove collaborator * Convert member to collaborator * Convert collaborator to member * Reinstate collaborator * Organize members into teams * About organization teams * Creating an organization team * Add members to a team * Team maintainers * Team profile picture * Code review settings * Renaming a team * Changing team visibility * Configuring team notifications * Move a team * Add a child team * Add or change parent team * Remove members * Scheduled reminders * Deleting a team * Manage programmatic access * About programmatic access * GitHub App managers * Review installed GitHub Apps * Set a token policy * Manage token requests * Review token access * Limit app requests and installations * Credential types reference * Manage OAuth access * OAuth app restrictions * Restrict OAuth apps * Unrestrict OAuth apps * Approve OAuth app access * Deny OAuth app access * Manage organization settings * Verify or approve a domain * Renaming an organization * Transfer ownership * Restrict repository creation * Set repo management policy * Set visibility changes policy * Manage forking policy * Manage pull request reviews * Disable or limit actions * Actions policies * About Actions policies * Workflow execution protections * About private networking * About Azure private networking * Configuring private networking * Troubleshooting Azure private networking * Configure retention period * Allow issue deletion * Allow branch renames * Organization discussions * Manage repository discussions * Manage the commit signoff policy * Restrict team creation * Manage scheduled reminders * Manage default branch name * Manage default labels * Manage display of member names * Manage sponsorship updates * Manage Pages site publication * Manage commit comments * Archive an organization * Delete organization * Convert organization to user * Upgrade to Corporate ToS * Disable projects * Manage projects base permissions * Project visibility permissions * Create rulesets * Manage rulesets * Repository custom properties * Organization security * Manage 2FA * View 2FA usage * Prepare to require 2FA * Require 2FA * Manage bots & service accounts * Manage security settings * Manage security & analysis * Review audit log * IP addresses in audit log * Audit log events * Access compliance reports * Migrate to improved permissions * Convert Owners team * Convert admin team * Migrate admin team Organizations and teams documentation You can use organizations to collaborate with a large number of people across many projects at once, while managing access to your data and customizing settings. Overview Recommended 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. Creating a new organization from scratch Create an organization to apply fine-grained access permissions to repositories. Best practices for organizations Learn GitHub-recommended practices for your organization. Articles Category : All categories About Actions policies Actions policies let you govern how GitHub Actions workflows run across repositories in your organization, starting with workflow execution protections. Secure and monitor your organization About Azure private networking for GitHub-hosted runners in your organization You can create a private network configuration for your organization to use GitHub-hosted runners in your Azure Virtual Network(s) (VNET). Secure and monitor your organization About networking for hosted compute products in your organization You can manage private networking for GitHub-hosted products using network configurations in your organization. Manage app and API access About OAuth app access restrictions Organizations can choose which OAuth apps have access to their repositories and other resources by enabling OAuth app access restrictions. Organize teams About organization teams Teams are groups of organization members that reflect your company or group's structure with cascading access permissions and mentions. Set up your organization 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. Manage app and API access About programmatic access in your organization As an organization owner, you can control access to your organization by personal access tokens, GitHub Apps, and OAuth apps. Set up your organization 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. Set up your organization 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. Showing 1-9 of 112 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 … 13 Next Help and support Did you find what you needed? Yes No Privacy policy Help us make these docs great! All GitHub docs are open source. See something that's wrong or unclear? Submit a pull request. Make a contribution Learn how to contribute Still need help? 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