“We want to invest in our community. What should we do?”
We can turn your goals, resources, and community needs into a program with a clear purpose, model, partners, budget, and measures of success.
X
Social-impact design + implementation studio
You bring the problem. We solve for X.
Scratch Paper helps organizations design, build, and launch programs that create meaningful social impact. Bring us a challenge, an opportunity, a community you want to serve, a commitment you've made, or an idea you haven't figured out how to execute. We figure out what should exist — and help you make it real.
Start a ConversationX = the thing that should exist next
Community Engagement • Education • Workforce Development • STEM • Entrepreneurship
What can you bring us?
The starting point can be almost anything.
“We have an idea. We don't know how to build it.”
We can take it from concept through program design, implementation planning, launch, and pilot.
“We received funding. Now we have to deliver.”
We can turn grant commitments, corporate investments, or public initiatives into an executable program—and help coordinate the people and resources required to make it happen.
“We need to create a workforce or education program.”
We can design pathways, curriculum, experiences, partnerships, and implementation models that connect people to skills and opportunity.
“We have resources that could do more.”
A facility. Technology. Employees. Community partners. Funding. Expertise. We can connect the pieces and design something meaningful around them.
“We know there's a problem. We don't know the solution.”
Perfect. That's an X.
What we do
A practical way through the unknown.
01
THINK
Figure out X.
We investigate the challenge, understand the people it affects, identify opportunities and resources, engage stakeholders, and determine what should exist.
02
PLAN
Turn X into something buildable.
We design the program, experience or initiative—including partnerships, curriculum, staffing, technology, budget, timeline, implementation strategy, and measures of success.
03
EXECUTE
Make X real.
We help assemble the people and resources, coordinate implementation, launch and pilot the work, measure what happens, improve the model, and prepare it for long-term operation.
From plan to practice
The work is designed to move from a good idea into a real experience for people and communities.
Work in action
Ideas become real when people get in the room.
A glimpse of the hands-on, community-centered work that informs how Scratch Paper approaches every new X.
Our five pillars
Where we do our best work.
Five focus areas. One practical goal: create more pathways to opportunity.
Community Engagement
Programs and experiences built with communities—not simply delivered to them.
Education
Experiential, project-based, and career-connected learning designed around how people actually learn.
Workforce Development
Programs that connect people to skills, credentials, employers, careers, and economic opportunity.
STEM
Hands-on technology, making, engineering, digital skills, and innovation experiences that expand access and confidence.
Entrepreneurship
Programs, experiences, and ecosystems that help people test ideas, build businesses, and learn through doing.
Who we work with
The institutions and communities moving possibility forward.
01Corporations
02Foundations
03Public agencies
04Educational institutions
05Nonprofits
06Community organizations
07Workforce + economic-development organizations
What we build
See what X can become.
01Workforce pipelines
02Community-engagement initiatives
03STEM + makerspace programs
04Experiential-learning programs
05Entrepreneurship initiatives
06Corporate social-impact programs
07Curriculum
08Community innovation experiences
09Pilot programs
About Scratch Paper
Built for the space between idea and reality.
There are plenty of people who can write a strategy. There are plenty of people who can operate a program once someone has figured out exactly what it is. Scratch Paper works in the space between the two. We bring together strategy, program design, education, community engagement, partnerships, operations, creativity, and implementation to turn complicated ideas into things that actually exist. Sometimes that means starting with a blank sheet of paper. Sometimes it means taking an existing idea and making it better.Sometimes it means connecting people and resources that were already there but had never been put together in quite the right way. We don't stop at the recommendation. We help build the answer.
01 / Founder
Founded by Feowyn MacKinnon
Scratch Paper grew out of more than 15 years of work at the intersection of education, workforce development, STEM, entrepreneurship, community engagement, and cross-sector partnerships. Founder Feowyn MacKinnon's work has included designing and launching makerspaces, workforce initiatives, entrepreneurship programs, experiential-learning models, corporate-community partnerships, and complex programs involving educators, employers, nonprofits, government, philanthropy, and community partners.
Selected prior experience
A foundation for what comes next.
This section will feature selected experience of the founder and team prior to Scratch Paper LLC. Examples shown here will be clearly attributed and are not projects performed by Scratch Paper LLC.
Cross-sector program designEducation + workforce initiativesCommunity-centered implementation
X
Start here
Have an X? Let’s work it out.
Bring the problem, opportunity, population, resource, or idea. We’ll help you find the shape of what comes next.
Locally rooted. Nationally available.
Launching January 1, 2027