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.

ScholarsThe people who received something, and what happened next ProgramsGrants, camps, clinics and the Circuit — what we ran and what we saw ResearchWhat the data says about girls in sport, sourced and checked FoundationHow this organization actually works, including the awkward parts

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.