Philanthropy

Founder and Executive Director of WEconomy.US, (a 501c3) Scott co-developed the Sustainable Communities Framework (SCF), a platform of the US 501c4 non-profit National Commonwealth Group (NCG). In response to decades of industrial decay from outsourcing and offshoring, the SCF is a globally recognized economic development framework designed to help accelerate prosperity for communities in crisis from both man-made and natural disasters by providing access to capital, enabling local commerce through a truly FREE MARKETplace™ and by empowering local non-profits to issue, spend, lend and grant to residents a local currency to be used for the payment of locally made or provided goods and services.

Communities in crisis face numerous issues, not the least of which is broad access to the conventional capital necessary to update aging infrastructure and retool manufacturing processes. Through the combination of entrepreneurship & workforce development programs that Mr. McIntyre developed during his tenure at the University of Toledo, and implementation of local currencies, the SCF promises to inspire, train and fuel residents in actualizing inherent talent and initiative while slowing brain-drain, all dramatically increasing regional GDP and Quality of Life.

The SCF will bridge urban and rural communities in addressing food deserts, small business formation and large scale un/underemployment. By hiring students and displaced workers to attend to community gardens and neighboring farms with fallow fields, and by re-tooling excess manufacturing capacity in vacant or underutilized factories, the initiative will support businesses utilizing the new local currency to regeneratively produce stable, meaningful jobs regionally, eliminate blight in neighborhoods and restore health to its residents.

Mr. McIntyre is currently in his 9th term as Chair of the Crowdfunding Professional Association (CfPA), the US 501c6 NGO whose leaders were instrumental in the drafting and lobbying the 2012 JOBS Act and integrating Crowdfunding into the regulated financial sector—democratizing access to capital and investment for entrepreneurs, small businesses and everyday Americans. The CfPA is managed by a diverse group of renown experts in fields ranging from conventional finance and banking to securities law, legislation, regulation and community advocacy. Mr. McIntyre is a founding executive of the CfPA and has served in leadership since its formation including four terms as President & Chair.

Personal life

Mr. McIntyre makes his home in Ohio with his wife and two children, the oldest of whom studies in the United Kingdom. Creatively, he is a professional photographer, graphic designer and musicologist and enjoys restoring old vehicles, any time on the water and playing golf and tennis.