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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Angela Taylor 8/3/26 Angela Taylor 8/3/26

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.

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Five years after a $1,000 scholarship

In 2021 the Taylor family funded an Idaho senior out of their own pockets. She just graduated from Gonzaga and commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Army.