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.

Center for Participatory Change

Also known as CPC.

50 S French Broad Suite 245, Asheville, NC 28801

Center for Participatory Change is a nonprofit organization in Asheville, North Carolina that serves immigrants and refugees.

CPC is a BIPOC-led community organizing nonprofit in Asheville that focuses on racial equity programming, youth mentoring, cultural exchange between Black and Latinx communities, and interpreter training through a language justice lens.

Mission

Igniting collective power. Transforming systems of oppression. Healing in community. Circles of Work It is urgent that Black communities-as survivors of anti-blackness, white supremacy and state sanctioned violence-claim space to heal. The Racial Equity Circles Black Love program is a place to break bread, form new relationships, and build community. There is also a pressing demand for institutions and organizations to challenge their culture of white supremacy. The Black Learning Exchange trains Black folks to become racial equity facilitators and use their lived experiences, shared wisdom, and collected resources to develop a curriculum around racial equity.

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Advocacy / policy: “Staff members actively engage in lobbying and advocacy at various governmental levels, meeting with policymakers, providing testimony, and using its social media platforms to inform the public.”
  • Cultural programming: “InterCAMBIO is an opportunity for adults and youth to gather and share personal stories in a cultural language exchange between English and Spanish speakers.”

Languages

Services delivered in Spanish.

Website in English only.

Communities served

Hispanic/Latino.

Contact

Founded 1999. IRS NTEE code S20. Revenue $336,630. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 56-2126417.

Other organizations in Asheville

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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).