Stories that LEAD
What we are learning, including the parts that did not work.
A young foundation, working in public. Notes on Idaho scholar-athletes, on getting girls into sport and keeping them there, and on the things we got wrong the first time.
Looking for the individual stories instead? IX Stories is the collection of first-person accounts — what stood in the way, what we funded, and what happened next, in their words rather than ours.
Read IX StoriesThe Taylor LEAD Foundation names Angela Taylor as its first Chief Executive Officer
The board names Co-Founder Angela Taylor to the role, marking
the Foundation's move from a founder-led effort to an
organization built to scale statewide.
We publish what we cannot claim
Our impact page has a list of things we do not know how to prove. Putting it there was the most useful decision we have made.
Tara VanDerveer's first head coaching job was in Idaho
Before Stanford, before three national championships and Olympic gold, she coached in Moscow, Idaho. Then she came back, forty-six years later, for a first-year gala.
94% of Female C-Suite Leaders Played Sports. Here's What That Number Really Means.
It is the most-quoted statistic in women's sport. It is also eleven years old, drawn from 400 self-selected executives, and it does not prove what people use it to prove.
The Case for Investing in Girls' Sports, Stated in Numbers Rather Than Conviction
Four figures explain why this organization exists, why it is built in three stages, and which of our claims are not yet supported by evidence.
"If She Can See It, She Can Be It" Is a Slogan. Here Is the Part That Is Measurable.
Representation is the most repeated idea in girls' sports and one of the least rigorously supported. Here is what the evidence carries, what it does not, and what to build anyway.
Girls leave sport twice as fast as boys. Nobody has measured it in Idaho.
Two national organizations disagree by almost a factor of two on the most important number in the field. Neither has ever looked at this state.
Inside the Change Make*Hers Gala: What $250K+ and 308 People Tell Us About What Idaho is Ready For
A first-year gala for a two-year-old foundation sold out and raised more than a quarter of a million dollars. That is a fact about Idaho, not about us.