Understanding Organizations
Learn how Organizations work in Memml and how they enable secure, collaborative fundraising management.
Key Concept
An Organization in Memml represents your non-profit organization. It's the container for all your Projects, Partners, Tasks, and team members. Organizations are completely isolated from each other, ensuring your data remains private and secure.
Your Non-Profit Organization
An Organization represents your non-profit - it's the top-level container for all your fundraising work.
When you sign up for Memml, you create an Organization. All your Projects, Partners, Tasks, budgets, and team members belong to this Organization.
Multi-User Collaboration
Organizations can have multiple users, allowing your team to collaborate on fundraising work together.
You can invite team members to join your Organization. Each user has their own account but shares access to the Organization's data based on their permission level.
Data Isolation and Security
One of the most important aspects of Organizations is data isolation:
Security Feature
Complete Data Isolation: Each Organization's data is completely separate from all other Organizations. Users in one Organization cannot see, access, or modify data from any other Organization.
This means your Projects, Partners, budgets, and all other data are private to your Organization only. Even if multiple non-profits use Memml, they cannot see each other's information.
Privacy by Design
Data isolation is built into Memml's architecture to ensure your fundraising information remains private.
This isolation applies to everything:
- Projects and Tasks
- Partners and Contacts
- Budgets and financial data
- Activity logs and notes
- Team members and user accounts
Organization vs User Accounts
It's important to understand the difference between Organizations and user accounts:
Organization
The non-profit organization itself - contains all the data and work.
One Organization represents one non-profit. It contains all Projects, Partners, Tasks, budgets, and other data. Multiple users can belong to one Organization.
User Account
An individual person who has access to an Organization.
User accounts are individual people. Each user has their own login credentials and can belong to one or more Organizations (though typically just one). Users access an Organization's data based on their permission level.
Team Collaboration
Organizations enable team collaboration through multiple users:
Shared Access
All users in an Organization share access to the same Projects, Partners, and data.
When you add team members to your Organization, they can:
- View and work on the same Projects
- Access the same Partners and Contacts
- See shared budgets and financial information
- Log activities and update Tasks
- Collaborate on fundraising work together
What each user can do depends on their permission level, which controls their access to different features and data.
Permission Levels
Within an Organization, users have different permission levels that control what they can do:
Learn More
For detailed information about permission levels and what each level can do, see our Permission Levels guide.
Important Note
If you need to manage multiple non-profits, you would create separate Organizations for each one. Each Organization is completely independent with its own data, team members, and Projects.