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 StoriesChange Make*Hers Gala by The Taylor LEAD Foundation is back on February 10
Tables and sponsorships are now open for the 2027 Change
Make*Hers Gala, returning February 10 at Boise Centre West
after a sold-out first year.
What $115 actually buys
It is registration season in Idaho. Here is the arithmetic of one girl's season, what a grant covers, and the number we still cannot tell you.
What LEAD Means, and What a Strong Application Actually Looks Like
Four criteria, explained the way a reviewer reads them, with the common mistakes that separate a finalist application from a recipient application.
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.
Camps Are Not About the Summer. They Are About Ages 12 to 14.
The case for girls' sports camps is usually made in adjectives. Made in numbers, it is narrower, more specific, and considerably more urgent.
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.