Workspaces in Organizer lets you give your teams and organizing partners their own focused spaces inside a single account—whether that's a region, campaign, coalition, space for training new volunteers, or something else.
With this new release, teams can work with just the data tied to their piece of the mission, while administrators keep the full picture across the organization.
It's an optional way to make an already-easy platform even easier—allowing some teams to avoid needing separate accounts, with no change to the data you already have.
What Is Workspaces?
A Workspace is a feature in Organizer that gives a focused view of data you already have. It works like separate rooms in one building—each region, campaign, team, or an organizing partner of your coalition gets its own focused space and sees the data tied to their work, while admins keep the key to every room.
Previously, keeping internal teams separated often required creating separate accounts. With Workspaces, one account can now hold focused spaces for every region and campaign within your organization.
Creating a Workspace doesn't move, copy, or delete any data. It's an additive layer that sits on top of the Organizer experience you already know. If your organization needs legal or strict data separation—such as organizations with 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) entities—separate Organizer accounts remain the right fit.
What Are Workspaces Used For?
Workspaces are used to separate regions, campaigns, teams within an organization, or organizing partners—so each group works only with the people and efforts that matter to their piece of the mission. They're especially useful any time different staffers or volunteers need to see different slices of your organization's data.
Common Ways to Use Workspaces
- Regions: Give geographic teams their own space with the people and efforts in their area.
- Campaigns: Stand up a dedicated space for a campaign so the right people have what they need.
- Seasonal Initiatives: Make a Workspace for a temporary effort in a specific season.
- Population-Specific Initiatives: Use a Workspace to focus on the people you’re trying to reach.
- Training: Create a low-stakes space where new volunteers or staff can explore and try things out.
- Reporting: Pull a Workspace-level view when reporting results back to funders and stakeholders.
If your organization runs a single, unified program, you may not need Workspaces at all—and that's perfectly fine. They're a helpful option within your organization when it makes sense; not a requirement.
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How Coalitions Use Workspaces
Workspaces aren't only for organizing your own staff and volunteers. Coalitions can use them, too, to coordinate the organizing partners they manage directly, all within a single Organizer account.
When it's the right fit, this can be a more cost-effective path for organizing partners than setting up separate Organizer accounts. Workspaces are a strong option when your organizing partners are working alongside you toward shared goals and don't need to control or export their data on their own.
If a Workspace is the right fit for your organizing partners, here's what to plan for:
- A Per-Partner Fee. Bringing on an organizing partner may carry a per-partner fee, prorated for your contract year. This fee can be between $500-$1,000 per partner for coalitions.
- A Possible Service-Level Change. Coalitions operate at our Elevated or Embedded service packages. If you're at our entry-level Essential package, you may need to move up depending on how your organizing partners are trained and supported.
- Signed Community Standards. Every organization new to Murmuration signs our Community Standards, which help ensure our products and services are used to build safe, trusted spaces for community-centered collective power.
Because every setup is a little different, your Partner Success Manager reviews each new organizing partner against your current agreement before a Workspace goes live. They’ll walk you through anything that applies.
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What Are the Benefits of Workspaces?
Workspaces is a way to keep every part of your work focused. Because everything lives in one account, your organization gets separation and oversight at the same time.
#1. One Account—Now Better Organized
Give every region, campaign, team, or organizing partner its own Workspace under a single account when it makes sense. Your organization can keep one source of truth while giving each team a clearer view of their own work.
#2. A Cleaner, More Focused Experience
Someone organizing in District 13 can see just that district—not every profile and every effort across your whole account. Less clutter means less confusion.
#3. A Full Picture for Account Admins
The Admin view maintains aggregated data across the account and an overview of every Workspace, so nothing gets lost.
#4. Account Data Remains Safe and Consistent
A Workspace doesn't move, copy, or delete anything. An update made in one Workspace carries through everywhere that data lives, so your records stay consistent.
#5. Workspaces Are Flexible
You can adjust who has access and change what a Workspace includes after you create it.
Just keep in mind that a Workspace can't be converted into a separate account later, and a Workspace can’t currently be deleted after you’ve created it.
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How Workspaces Supports Nonprofit Data Management Best Practices
Workspaces supports nonprofit data management best practices by helping everyone in your organization work with just the data that's relevant to their role. A volunteer organizing a specific region usually doesn't need to see every profile across your broader account.
That focus reflects habits at the core of good nonprofit data management best practices:
- Give people the data relevant to their work. A more focused space means less clutter, fewer mistakes, and faster progress.
- Keep a single, consistent source of truth. Because updates carry through everywhere the data lives, your records stay consistent across the whole account.
- Know where your data comes from. The "Workspace Origin" column shows where a Community originated, so your team always has clarity on how data enters your account.
- Stay flexible. You can adjust who has access and what a Workspace includes as your needs change.
Remember: If you need true data separation, you need a separate account—not a Workspace. Specifically, this applies to organizations with 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) entities that need to keep that work legally separate and coalitions whose organizing partners each need to control their own data.
Less Clutter, More Organizing—Get Started with Workspaces
Workspaces gives each region, campaign, team, or organizing partner their own focused spaces while your organization’s Admins keep the full picture—one account, less clutter, and no risk to your existing data.
It's an easy, optional way to bring nonprofit data management best practices into the everyday work of organizing your community.
Ready to see it in action? Get started with Workspaces from Account Management > Workspaces, or request a demo of Organizer to see how focused spaces can help your team do more of what matters.