Borders Gift Card Redemption

This is a follow-up to those who've been wanting to donate their Border's Gift Cards to a Pueblo project.  Unfortunately, the bottom line is there is not a project for Pueblo that will post in time for tomorrow's deadline.  Please go ahead and select another worthy school project to donate to before the deadline expires.  We are sorry to miss out on this, but will be better prepared for next year.  Thanks again!  Tracy Oliver, Pueblo PTO
Below is the response from our school librarian who was trying very diligently to get something for Pueblo listed:
I just went on and checked the status and it is still "under review". It won't even post before the cards expire so I say put out an email thanking everyone for helping but to please go on the DonorsChoose website and donate their cards to another school. We didn't realize that the cards had to be used through DonorsChoose and that you had to have a project. We submitted a project last week and it hasn't posted yet. We learned a lot from this. Borders also wasn't happy when I called them because in order for us to order books we would have to order them through the DonorsChoose selected vendor which is Barnes and Noble!! What a fiasco. Sorry for the confusion. We didn't know this is what it was. It sounded like a great way to get some new books for the library.
I guess you can just say in the newsletter that we appreciate their support (we do!) and we did submit a project to the website that redeems the cards but the project hasn't posted and we don't want the cards to go unused so they should donate them to another school. I know there was one other Kyrene school that had a project posted. Thanks PTO!