Be a part of BCNH’s first event!

Join BCNH for a joyful, powerful celebration of refugee resettlement—and a clear statement that New Hampshire welcomes refugees and immigrants.

Our state needs a growing workforce, our communities need young and vibrant families, and displaced people around the world need safe and welcoming places to live. If you share these beliefs, we would be honored to celebrate them with you.

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Awardees

Community Cornerstone Award

Representative Suraj Budathoki serves in the New Hampshire House of Representatives (Hillsborough County District 40). A former Bhutanese refugee, he spent nearly two decades in refugee camps in Nepal before resettling in the United States in 2009. He later served as a State Representative for the U.S. Refugee Congress. Suraj is the founder of Peace Initiative Bhutan, working to advance dialogue, reconciliation, and peaceful resolution between the government of Bhutan and exiled Bhutanese communities. He is also a business owner and a doctoral student in Transformative Social Change at Saybrook University, focusing on conflict transformation and peacebuilding. His work and writing center on human rights, resilience, and building inclusive communities.

Suraj Budathoki

Pathways to Prosperity Award

Stephen Duprey is a well-known businessman, civic and community leader. He is the owner of the Duprey Companies, a diversified real estate development and hospitality business that includes Duprey Hospitality, 6 hotels, 2 conference venues, and Foxfire Property Management. He works with 300 associates.

Duprey is widely recognized for his civic and community involvement with over 50 years of continuous volunteer service to state agencies. He has served on the New Hampshire Personnel Commission, the Ballot Law Commission, the Community Development Finance Authority, the Business Finance Authority, the New Hampshire National Finance Authority, and the Pease Development Authority. He is known for his legislative efforts to create a number of state agencies focused on economic and community development, including the creation of the New Hampshire CDFA, the BFA, and the Department of Business and Economic Development.

He has served on numerous state charitable organizations and boards, including the Currier Museum of Art, New Hampshire Public Radio, New Hampshire Civics, New Hampshire Historical Society, New Hampshire YMCA and Franklin Pierce University. In addition, he has served on many Concord charitable and civic boards. He has a long history in elective politics, most notably as being elected the youngest legislator in the country at the age of 19 in 1972, and most recently as a senior advisor to the late Senator John McCain.