The Madow Brothers

At The Madow Group, we are dedicated to helping the needy and displaced. We have already made a large contribution to The American Red Cross, and will continue to place much effort into helping out. However, your suggestion is really not feasible. First of all, if we cancel TBSE, the "BIG profit" which you suggested we donate will not be there. We will actually incur a huge deficit if the event is cancelled, which will, among many things, hamper our ability to help the victims. Secondly, we do not have carte blanche from the people who have paid tuition to TBSE to just cancel the event and donate their money! We don't control that money - it was sent to us in good faith so that they will be able to attend a fantastic dental continuing education event. We are working tremendously hard to make sure that this happens. It is not only our obligation, but our mission to present TBSE - just like we did shortly after 9/11 and just as we will continue to do - the show must go on. While we are encouraging others to contribute in any way they can, we certainly cannot start donating other people's money that they have sent us in good faith. At The Madow Group, we are all working as hard as possible to relocate TBSE and make it the best dental event of the year while continuing efforts to help the Katrina victims as well as encouraging other to do so. Thanks for your suggestions. We hope to see you at TBSE and also hope that all of our efforts to produce this event will also benefit those unfortunate people in the Gulf area.