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.

Im Your Neighbor Books Welcoming Library

80 BELL STREET SUITE 7, PORTLAND, ME 04103-3478

Im Your Neighbor Books Welcoming Library is a nonprofit organization in Portland, Maine that serves immigrants and refugees.

A book-based cultural-awareness nonprofit that curates, loans, and gifts children's books representing immigrant communities along with educational materials to foster cross-cultural understanding.

Mission

I'm Your Neighbor Books strives to build a stronger America, one where immigrants are welcomed and where first through third generation Americans truly belong. I'm Your Neighbor Books work is done by facilitating deep engagement with the children's books that represent our New Arrival and New American communities. By curating, loaning, and gifting these diverse titles with educational materials, the nonprofit:* Starts conversations on modern immigration,* Refutes false narratives about communities of color,* Creates emotional connections to a vast diversity of voices,* Builds the cultural competency of all readers and* Lays the groundwork for cross-cultural communication.

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Cultural programming: “the festival celebrates the authors, illustrators, and children’s books of the Africa Diaspora”

Website in English only.

Contact

Founded 2019. IRS NTEE code A23. Revenue $695,801. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 84-2244213.

Other organizations in Portland

All organizations in Portland | All organizations in Maine

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).