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Partnership in jeopardy: call your members of Congress today!

If you haven’t yet called your representatives in the House and Senate to express your support for the Partnership for Sustainable Communities, today is a crucial day to pick up the phone.

By Smart Growth America, November 9, 2011

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If you haven’t yet called your representatives in the House and Senate to express your support for the Partnership for Sustainable Communities, today is a crucial day to pick up the phone. Funding for the Partnership is being decided now, and your call could be the one that helps keep these programs for the year to come.

Call today! Click here for information about calling your representatives.

With funding for the Partnership in serious jeopardy, voicing your concerns to your members of Congress is crucially important to the decision-making process, and it only takes a few minutes.

The Partnership for Sustainable Communities helps towns and cities across the country spur economic growth by investing in local jobs and local communities. This is an efficient, effective investment of taxpayer dollars and one that will keep our country strong for years to come. Help us fight to keep these programs alive!

Tell your representatives to support the Partnership for Sustainable Communities: Call your members of Congress today.

The Partnership depends on the support of advocates like you. When you speak out, Congress listens! Please take a few minutes to call your members of Congress today.