Every year Team Haverhill hosts Possible Dreams, an upbeat community conversation that celebrates Haverhill’s progress, elicits community aspirations, and fosters new connections.
Team Haverhill’s annual community visioning event reflects and discusses the continuing revitalization of our city. This community conversation provides an opportunity to meet new people, discover more that Haverhill has to offer and shape the future of our community by sharing and incubating new ideas.
Possible Dreams 2025 took place on Monday, March 10, 2025, 7:00 PM at the Hartleb Technology Center at Northern Essex Community College. For more information on what was discussed at this year’s event and how you can still get involved, please see the:
Possible Dreams 2025 – Summary Report
This unique community conversation focused on ideas submitted by Haverhill residents, and what steps we could take together to make them happen for Haverhill.
Ideas collected from the community became the subjects of upbeat, lively conversations at Possible Dreams 2025. Attendees came together to find ways that they could contribute… with a thought, suggestion, a connection or resource, or with their time in helping to plan or volunteering to help a project that they found interesting.
Some ideas that were discussed at Possible Dreams 2025 included:
Let’s Paddle Haverhill! Repair Café
Haverhill Trail Stewards Haverhill Pride Parade
Hello & Welcome Wagon Christmas Stroll 2.0
Art in the Park Resilient Haverhill Initiative
True Community Farm Beyond Walls 3.0
Performing Arts Center Holistic Soul & Spirit Fair
Textile Recycling in Haverhill Food Forward Community Kitchen
If you have any questions about this year’s event, or how to get involved now that it is over, please email info@teamhaverhill.org or call 978-228-1060.
Thank you to everyone who participated in Possible Dreams!
What is Possible Dreams?
Possible Dreams is an engaging, resident-driven visioning event, very unique to Haverhill. Think lively brainstorming session – but with the whole city invited to participate. This positive and powerful community-wide conversation is led by Team Haverhill’s Lisa Marzilli. The evening consists of small group discussions focused on life in Haverhill and what is needed for our city to thrive in the future. Ideas from the small group discussions are then highlighted and shared with the room full of city residents in hopes of harnessing energy to realize impactful ‘dreams’.
A brief summary of Possible Dreams 2025 is available here: Possible Dreams 2025 Summary Report.
What do you need to do?
At this point, the best thing you can do is review the Possible Dreams 2025 Summary Report and reach out to the individual idea presenters directly to see how you can help.
For more information email info@teamhaverhill.org.
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Past Events
To see what was discussed at Possible Dreams in previous years, please view: Possible Dreams 2024 Summary Report, Possible Dreams 2021: Moving Forward Together – Summary Report, Possible Dreams 2020 – Summary Report and the Possible Dreams 2020 – Full Report, the Possible Dreams 2019 Action/Idea groups – and Comments, the Possible Dreams 2018 focus group highlight videos: Positives of Living in Haverhill, Challenges of Living in Haverhill, and Closing Messages and the Possible Dreams 2018 Action Steps. You can also view our Possible Dreams 2017 Meeting Notes, Possible Dreams 2016 Meeting Notes, Possible Dreams 2015 -Topic-Group-Reports, as well as our compilation of results from 2008-2014. One important outcome from Possible Dreams 2014 was the first Haverhill Volunteer Expo. With initial leadership from the Haverhill YMCA, a consortium of four local nonprofits organized the September event, which featured volunteer opportunities with two dozen exhibiting organizations.
Several past Possible Dreams events led to major Team Haverhill initiatives: advocacy for single-stream curbside recycling, revitalization of the Haverhill Farmers Market, and the annual Team Haverhill’s River Ruckus festival.
Perhaps most important of all, the aspirations that are shared at Possible Dreams provide encouragement and guidance to all of Haverhill’s leaders, businesses, institutions, and volunteer groups, as we play our various roles in making Haverhill a strong, vibrant, and livable community.
Our year always starts with the Possible Dreams event. It’s a really upbeat, lively community conversation about the things we can accomplish as a city if we all work together.Alice Mann, President of Team Haverhill
