QuadW Foundation

The QuadW Missional Outreach’s summer is underway, and we still have TWO more available dates - July 14th + 16th - on our meal train supporting the interns at QuadW Missional Internship’s Dallas site operated by Hope Dallas!  Please consider providing a meal for these wonderful college students who are working so hard to provide Far East Dallas children with an amazing summer camp experience! Link: https://www.mealtrain.com/trains/zmmv1r (Link also in bio!) 🩵✨

The Willie Tichenor Scholarship at Plan II is going strong with five students receiving travel scholarships for their study abroad pursuits this year. Plans include traveling to Paris for the Global Challenges in Europe Program, visiting France through the Normandy Scholars Program, going to Rotterdam, Ireland, for a supply chain management May term, and a trip to Southern France. We are excited for these students and the incredible educational experiences they are having! MK enjoyed visiting the office and meeting Plan II’s incredible new director, Dr. Janet Davis. 🤘🏽🤍🧡✨

It was another successful year of fundraising for Cycle for Survival! QuadW funded another matching grant of $50,000 to $51,301 raised that went to Dr. Bill Tap’s sarcoma lab at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. As Chief of Sarcoma Medical Oncology at MSK, Dr. Tap is at the forefront of research in sarcoma and driving innovation in the field. Dr. Tap has received over $1,000,000 in funding because of QuadW matching grants over the years. 🧡🚴✨

This past May, QuadW Director Lauren Jordan had the privilege of presenting the HPHS 2026 Willie Tichenor Arts Scholarship to Isabel Arnold, a deserving senior who is an accomplished piano player and headed to Dartmouth College in the fall.

Congratulations, Isabel! 💙💛 🎹 🎶 🤍💚

Bret, MK, Lisa and Mac traveled to Chicago for the 2026 American Society of Clinical Oncology conference to attend the biannual meeting by to hear about the latest work in antibody-drug conjugates and other cutting-edge research in sarcoma. 

They also met the 2026 Conquer Cancer-QuadW Foundation Young Investigator Award in memory of Willie Tichenor, Dr. Sukjoo Cho.  Dr. Cho is mentored by Dr. Jason Yustein at Emory University and is studying why a gene called MYC appears to be linked to worse outcomes in osteosarcoma patients.  By studying mice in parallel to an ongoing human trial that is testing the response to a newer therapy, Dr. Cho is hoping to identify how MYC changes the tumor and surrounding environment.  QuadW’s award will allow Dr. Cho to continue his important research as he launches his research career.

Fun fact: Dr. Yustein was the second QuadW-funded Young Investigator through ASCO/Conquer Cancer Foundation.  It is particularly meaningful to have one of his mentees win the award 19 years later!

What a night! Thank you to all who helped us commemorate 20 years of the QuadW Foundation, where we remembered Willie and honored the impact of his legacy. Approximately 300 people gathered to see CloverStreet and , raising $175,000 that will go directly to the QuadW Foundation’s grant partners.

Special thanks to our underwriters for making this night possible, to our host and event committees for making the night a success, to for the stunning flowers, and to our QuadW community made up of old and new friends, who showed up to be a part of it! Your support means the world to us. We look forward to carrying on this important work!

Thank you also to and for making it a night to remember! It was all exactly what Willie would have wanted. 💙

Tickets are now on sale for our upcoming event on Saturday, February 28 to mark 20 years of the QuadW Foundation! Join us to remember Willie, learn about the work of QuadW, and experience a fun evening of music by The Clinton Years with a silent auction and raffle. You do not want to miss it!