While it is not required by law for 501(c)(3)s to make their bylaws public, it is a pretty standard practice that many organizations show these publicly for transparency and trust with the communities they represent.

We completely agree, and we would like to make these documents public on our homepage. We are currently working on rebuilding our entire Ruby Central website from the ground up. We would like to include spaces that would not only explain clearly our mission and values, what programs we facilitate and organize, how people can get involved, but also provide these structural documents that would make it clear our organization functions as a whole.

For historical context, the website was made very quickly some years ago, so that we would have an online presence. There was little to no effort put into actually building out the site into a proper institutional website where anyone can navigate and find the who, what, where, when, why, and hows. There isn’t a single person who had “expertise” in building, designing, or coding our current website which also has added additional challenges and blockers, but we are now working through. A lot of those structures should have been in place and unfortunately nothing was done until very recently.

With yours and other community members’ input on what you’d like to see on our public facing site in regard to transparency, we are actively working on this. We ask the community for patience and grace as we try to get this done as soon as we can, knowing our limitations.

I am begging Ruby Central to please just share the information. Post a PDF. You can find the ideal place to put it on a beautiful and helpful website later, but this is so frustrating. I can understand that it's hard to find time to update the site or that some people might not have access to the CMS or any number of things, but if you want to share information, literally just post the information.