Immigrant Support Atlas

Foreign-born share over time

How the immigrant share of the population shifts across the country. Press play to animate. Source: US Census ACS 5-year.

Access to immigrant-serving organizations

Spatial access by the enhanced two-step floating catchment area method (E2SFCA). Darker green = better access; orange = a service desert (people who need it, but no organization within reach); gray = no foreign-born population. Source: org locations + US Census ACS 2023.

Immigrant Policy Inclusion Index

How inclusive each state’s policies are toward immigrants, across seven domains: health coverage, language access, higher education, identification, integration & licensure, legal protection, and economic inclusion. Darker green = more inclusive; orange/red = more restrictive or limited. Click any state for its full profile.

Immigrant–Native Disparity Index

Standardized gaps between foreign-born and US-born residents (uninsured, crowded housing, rent burden, education, home internet, vehicle access, homeownership) from US Census ACS. Green = smaller gaps; red = larger gaps. This is an outcome measure, separate from the Policy map: it describes how immigrant and US-born residents differ, and is shaped by who has immigrated where (recency and composition), not by state policy alone. Click any state for its full profile.

English assimilationism

Project Implicit is a self-selected volunteer sample, not a representative survey; within each area, respondents are reweighted to the Census population by age, sex, race and ethnicity, and citizenship. Higher = less welcoming. Areas with too few respondents are left blank. See the note below for the exact survey item. Source: Project Implicit 2023-2025.

Immigrant attitudes

Project Implicit is a self-selected volunteer sample, not a representative survey; within each area, respondents are reweighted to the Census population by age, sex, race and ethnicity, and citizenship. Higher = less welcoming. Areas with too few respondents are left blank. See the note below for the exact survey item. Source: Project Implicit 2023-2025.

Building Community in New Hampshire

Also known as Building Community in NH, BCNH.

1045 ELM ST STE 202, MANCHESTER, NH 03101-1824

Building Community in New Hampshire is a nonprofit organization in Manchester, New Hampshire that serves immigrants and refugees.

BCNH is a multi-ethnic mutual aid organization in New Hampshire serving recently arrived refugees and immigrants with case management, ESOL and citizenship classes, workforce development, health and benefits navigation, and community-building programs.

Mission

To be a multi-ethnic mutual assistance organization that provides an array of services required by diverse refugee and immigrant communities that help newcomers to understand and navigate the systems that are part of every day life...

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Advocacy / policy: “Help BCNH track legislation and draft advocacy alerts to ask our community to take quick action to support or oppose bills affecting the refugee community”
  • Benefits enrollment: “Call us for help registering for food assistance, unemployment benefits, and health insurance.”
  • Case management: “Our case managers provide a wide range of services to individual refugees and families, including assistance with employment, housing, accessing public benefits”
  • Citizenship: “We also offer in-person citizenship classes in Nashua on Tuesdays.”
  • Cultural programming: “Cultural celebrations for holidays and special occasions”
  • Digital literacy: “They also trained parents in digital literacy”
  • Education / youth: “supported learning activities for refugee children during the summer”
  • Employment / job training: “Our workforce development program assists clients with job coaching and placement, obtaining a driver’s license, ESOL classes, and continuing formal education.”
  • ESL / English: “Our in-person English classes convene in our Elm Street office on Tuesday and Thursday mornings.”
  • Financial literacy: “helped clients obtain financial literacy skills”
  • Health education: “trained parents in childhood nutrition, oral health, and where to purchase healthy foods.”
  • Housing: “finding housing”
  • Interpretation / translation: “translating and preparing immigration forms”
  • Refugee resettlement (R&P)
  • Transportation: “We help clients find a doctor, schdeule an appointment, and get there on time.”

Website offers an automatic translation widget only.

Service area: New Hampshire (Manchester and Nashua).

Federal recognition and registries

  • ORR refugee resettlement funding

Contact

Founded 2012. IRS NTEE code A23. Revenue $500,000-999,999. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 27-3435232.

Other organizations in Manchester

All organizations in Manchester | All organizations in New Hampshire

Sources: IRS exempt-organization records, Form 990 filings, federal and network directories, and the organization's own website. Data as of October 19, 2026. Information here can change; contact the organization to confirm.

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Immigrant profiles by origin, language, and race / ethnicity

Pick a group to see its own profile: how large it is and how it lives, with the all-foreign-born and US-born averages shown for context. National estimates from US Census ACS 1-year microdata (PUMS).