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Creating a new organization from scratch

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" and "Transferring a repository."

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

    Screenshot of dropdown menu for the user profile icon. The "Settings" option is highlighted in a dark orange outline.

  2. In the "Access" section of the sidebar, click Organizations.

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

  4. Follow the prompts to create your organization. For more information about the plans available for your team, see "GitHub’s products."

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