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.
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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.