Websites
Website management
Custom websites and CMS platforms, plus 20 years of WordPress. Built for nonprofits to update easily and keep current.
Dylan Raines
Nonprofit Communications & Website Management
Nonprofit founder and communications designer with 20 years of web development experience. I turn missions into clear messages, websites, and digital content that connect people with causes.
I founded The Human Family and designed and built its web platform. Through Raines Communications, I have spent about 15 years helping nonprofits, national leadership organizations, small businesses, artists, professors, and authors share their work. Available for nonprofit communications and website management roles and projects, remote or in St. Joseph, Kansas City, and Lawrence.
Communications
Mission messaging
Clear stories, newsletters, donor updates, and social media that help people understand your work and take part.
Nonprofit founder
The Human Family
A nonprofit and web platform where member charities manage their own pages and supporters can fund specific partner projects.
Also by Dylan
A World of Possibilities, a children’s book about curiosity and wonder.
Anna and her grandfather take a walk that helps her see she has time to explore.
Portfolio
Recent work
New episode · Humanitarian Explorer
Ebola Vaccine Trial Brings Hope, India Evacuates 80,000 Before Cyclone Arnab, Safe Water Reaches a Ghana Village | Oct 28, 2026
Today on Humanitarian Explorer: a vaccine trial called Tumaini, meaning "hope," begins in the Democratic Republic of the Congo against the Bundibugyo strain…
New episode · Humanitarian Explorer
Water Reaches Afghan Villages, Amazon Deforestation Hits Record Low, India Readies for Cyclone Arnab | Oct 27, 2026
Today on Humanitarian Explorer: India moves tens of thousands of people to safety ahead of Cyclone Arnab. In Yemen, aid groups rush medicine to Taiz as…
New episode · All Things Baby
The Healing Power of Birth Circles
Birth circles. What are they? Who would attend them? Are they only for newly postpartum moms or for someone who has had a difficult birth experience?
New episode · All Things Baby
My Water Broke at 11:50 PM on my Husband’s Birthday ~ a Birth Story
Did you know it’s possible to have an entire birth process without any cervical checks? If you’re like me and are extremely sensitive, this is good news! I…
New project · Book
A World of Possibilities
A children’s book about curiosity, wonder, and appreciation. Join five-year-old Anna and her grandfather on a walk that sparks curiosity and wonder.
New project · Web platform
The Human Family
Nonprofit web platform where member charities manage their own pages and supporters can fund specific partner projects.
Book
A World of Possibilities
A children’s book about curiosity, wonder, and appreciation. Join five-year-old Anna and her grandfather on a walk that sparks curiosity and wonder.
Podcast
Humanitarian Explorer
A daily five-minute briefing on the most important humanitarian news from around the world. Now part of The Human Family.
Podcast
All Things Baby
Encouragement, education, and empowerment for topics surrounding pregnancy, birth, and the first formative years.
Web platform
The Human Family
Nonprofit web platform where member charities manage their own pages and supporters can fund specific partner projects.
Website
United States Prayer Breakfast
Website designed to communicate its mission of friendship, reconciliation, and unity.
Website
The Launch Pad
Website for Launch Pad STJ, whose mission is to empower entrepreneurs and foster innovation in Northwest Missouri.
Projects: The Human Family · Humanitarian Explorer · All Things Baby · A World of Possibilities · United States Prayer Breakfast · The Launch Pad · All Things Baby website · Elevated Brands · Planetwalk · Raines Communications
From the Library
Recent writing
Technology & Entrepreneurship
From campground questions to business plans, a new AI institute targets entrepreneurs’ everyday work
Goldman Sachs’ new small-business AI initiative promises practical training; founders can start by testing one useful task and measuring the results.
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Healthy Environment
Cleaner transport needs a safe destination for the batteries it leaves behind
UNEP’s new update links electric mobility’s promise with affordable finance, battery collection and protection for workers and communities.
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Food & Nutrition
When a school’s free-meal offer changes, families still need a clear path to lunch
New reporting on school-meal losses highlights the link between household assistance, school budgets and children’s food access.
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A wiser, more compassionately
connected world.
My mission is to cultivate a wiser, more compassionately connected world. I try to do that by paying attention, telling true stories, and helping good work reach the people it is meant for.
My books explore questions about life. Through my communications work, I help nonprofits and small businesses share what they do, so more people can find them and take part.
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