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# Groups and teams: organizing your members

> Groups surface members in your community directory. Teams bring members together for tasks and collaboration. Learn when to use each.

Campground gives you two ways to organize members beyond programs: groups and teams. They serve different purposes. Groups are about visibility — they control how members appear in your community directory and what filters people can use to find each other. Teams are about work — they bring members together for task assignment and collaboration. Most organizations use both.

## Groups

A group is a segment of your community. Members belong to a group so they appear in that group's directory listing, where other members can browse and filter profiles.

### What groups do

* Organize members into named community segments (e.g., "Alumni Network", "Mentors", "2025 Cohort")
* Power your members-only community directory with searchable, filterable member listings
* Let you configure which custom fields appear as directory filters and which appear on profile cards

### Adding members to a group

You can add members to a group in two ways:

1. **Manually** — select profiles from the Contacts page and use the bulk **Assign to groups** action
2. **Automatically via forms** — configure an application or intake form to automatically add submitters to a group upon submission

### The community directory

Each group has its own directory page listing all its members. Signed-in members can search by name and filter by any custom fields you've designated as directory filters.

You can configure two types of fields for each group:

| Field type         | Where it appears                                                                       |
| ------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Filter fields**  | As dropdown filters on the directory page (single-select and multi-select fields only) |
| **Preview fields** | On each member's profile card in the directory listing                                 |

Members can also narrow a group's directory by **program** and **season** to find people who participated in a specific cohort. These filters appear automatically on groups whose members belong to one or more programs — you don't need to configure them.

Groups can be **hidden** from the directory if you don't want them listed — hidden groups still exist and members still belong to them, but they won't appear in the directory navigation.

<Note>
  Groups cannot be deleted. If you need to retire a group, set it to hidden
  instead. This preserves membership history without exposing the group in the
  directory.
</Note>

## Teams

A team is a working group built for task assignment and collaboration. Teams are managed internally by admins and are not part of the community directory.

### What teams do

* Group members for task assignment and workflow management
* Support team-level task lists that all members work through together
* Distinguish between team admins and regular team members

### Team roles

Every team member has one of two roles within that team:

| Role       | What they can do                                  |
| ---------- | ------------------------------------------------- |
| **Member** | Participates in team tasks; can view team content |
| **Admin**  | Can manage team membership and settings           |

Team roles are separate from organization-level roles. A person can be a team admin on one team and a regular member on another, regardless of their organization role.

### Team task lists

You can assign task lists directly to a team. When a task list is assigned to a team, all team members receive those tasks. Each member submits their own task responses individually, so you can track completion per person.

### Team types

Teams can be organized into types (e.g., "Working Groups", "Partnerships") to keep your team list manageable as it grows. When your organization has multiple team types, the sidebar groups teams by type. If you have no types defined, teams appear in a single flat list.

## Groups vs. teams at a glance

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="Groups">
    Use groups when you want to:

    * Surface members in the community directory
    * Let members browse and filter each other by profile fields
    * Automatically categorize members based on form submissions
    * Organize your community into segments for visibility and discovery

    **Examples:** Alumni Network, Mentors, Class of 2025, Volunteers
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Teams">
    Use teams when you want to:

    * Assign a set of tasks to a specific group of people
    * Track individual task completion within a working group
    * Designate team leads or admins for a working group
    * Manage internal project or committee structures

    **Examples:** Marketing Committee, Engineering Working Group, Outreach Partners
  </Tab>
</Tabs>

|                           | Groups | Teams |
| ------------------------- | ------ | ----- |
| Community directory       | Yes    | No    |
| Custom filter fields      | Yes    | No    |
| Task list assignment      | No     | Yes   |
| Team roles (admin/member) | No     | Yes   |
| Auto-add via form         | Yes    | No    |
| Can be hidden             | Yes    | N/A   |

<Tip>
  A member can belong to any number of groups and teams at the same time. Use
  groups to control how they appear in the community directory and teams to
  coordinate the work they do internally.
</Tip>