PROTECT THE COLLECTIVE — MARIETTA
Your community. Your voice. Our future.
Connect with neighbors, discover local resources, and help build a healthier, more connected Marietta.
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🚨 HAPPENING NOW
Real decisions. Real opportunities to participate.
Stay informed about local issues, upcoming decisions, and opportunities to make your voice heard.
STOP THE POWERS FERRY DATA CENTER
1155 Powers Ferry Place · Z2026-12
The rezoning was approved on August 12, 2026. Community opposition continues, with residents seeking lawful opportunities to prevent the project from moving forward.
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NORTH AVENUE / LEWIS PARK REZONING
673 North Avenue · Z2026-22
A proposed rezoning involving 16 parcels near Lewis Park has drawn neighborhood opposition. Public hearings are scheduled for October.
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📌 AROUND MARIETTA
Good things happen when neighbors know what's happening around them.
Discover local opportunities, share ideas, and find ways to connect with the people who make Marietta home.
🌱 NEIGHBORS NEEDED
Help bring community gardens, cleanups, and other local projects to life.
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🎉 COMING UP
Find free events, neighborhood gatherings, workshops, and opportunities to meet new people.
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🤝 A LITTLE HELP GOES A LONG WAY
Discover ways to support neighbors and local organizations—or find support when you need it.
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💡 HAVE AN IDEA?
What would make Marietta healthier, more connected, or more enjoyable? Share an idea and help find others who want to build it with you.
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WHAT BRINGS YOU HERE?
There's more than one way to be part of your community.
✊ TAKE ACTION
Stand up for issues that matter. Find current campaigns, public meetings, peaceful demonstrations, and practical ways to participate.
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🌱 BUILD TOGETHER
Explore community gardens, cleanups, creative projects, and resident-led ideas. Bring your skills or help turn a new idea into reality.
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🤝 GIVE & GET HELP
Find local resources for food, housing, transportation, mental health, families, and more—or discover ways to support someone else.
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📅 COME TOGETHER
Discover community events, festivals, workshops, volunteer days, and opportunities to meet your neighbors.
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🏛️ KNOW YOUR COMMUNITY
Learn how local government works, who represents you, what decisions are being made, and how to participate.
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🏪 SUPPORT LOCAL
Discover local businesses, makers, farmers, artists, and organizations that help make Marietta unique.
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MORE THAN A PLACE TO LIVE.
Marietta is made of the people, places, and small moments that bring us together.
🌳 GET OUTSIDE
Explore parks, trails, gardens, and outdoor opportunities to reconnect with nature and your neighbors.
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🎨 DISCOVER SOMETHING LOCAL
Find local art, music, markets, makers, and the people bringing creativity into our community.
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☕ MEET YOUR NEIGHBORS
Find welcoming places, free activities, and community gatherings where you can connect and feel at home.
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SMALL BEGINNINGS. LASTING CHANGE.
What we're building together.
Protect the Collective connects people, organizations, knowledge, and resources to help community-led ideas become reality.
🌱 COMMUNITY FOOD GARDENS
Connecting residents, schools, organizations, and available resources to explore opportunities for growing food, learning together, and strengthening community connections.
STATUS: SEEKING PARTNERS
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🎪 COMMUNITY RESOURCE FESTIVAL
Exploring a free, family-friendly gathering that brings together local businesses, nonprofits, artists, neighbors, and opportunities to learn, connect, and participate.
STATUS: PLANNING
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📅 COME BE PART OF SOMETHING.
This month in Marietta.
From public meetings and volunteer days to festivals, workshops, and neighborhood gatherings, there are many ways to connect with your community.
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Hosting something that brings people together?
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YOUR COMMUNITY CAN HELP YOU, TOO.
Need a hand? Looking for a resource?
Find local organizations and services that can help with food, housing, transportation, mental health, family needs, and more.
You don't have to know where to start. We're working to make it easier to find the support that already exists around you.
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💬 YOUR VOICE BELONGS HERE.
What does community mean to you?
What do you love about Marietta? What would make your neighborhood feel more connected? What skills, ideas, or experiences would you like to share?
We want to hear from the people who make this community what it is.
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THERE'S A PLACE FOR YOU HERE.
Join Protect the Collective — Marietta.
You don't need experience, a title, or a perfect plan. Bring your curiosity, your skills, your ideas, or simply yourself.
Whether you want to help with a community project, participate in local decisions, connect with neighbors, or contribute behind the scenes, there's a way to get involved.
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OUR COMMITMENT
Protect the Collective is committed to human dignity, nonviolence, evidence-based information, community participation, transparency, and respect across differences.
We may take positions on local issues. When we do, we will explain why, distinguish documented facts from opinions and concerns, and provide access to original sources whenever possible.
Community is power.
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