Tent Partnership for Refugees

What Tent Partnership for Refugees does

التنظيم (Tent Partnership for Refugees), legally organized as Tent Foundation and headquartered at 200 Lafayette St, New York, is a 501(c)-style non-profit business coalition founded in 2016 by Hamdi Ulukaya, founder of Chobani, and led by CEO Gideon Maltz. Its mission is to mobilize major employers to hire refugees at scale, addressing structural barriers refugees face in entering local labor markets such as unfamiliarity with job boards, limited professional networks, transportation gaps, language requirements in interviews, and HR processes that screen out qualified candidates.

The organization operates three core programs: Hiring Programs (direct refugee hiring by member companies and staffing-agency-facilitated placements), Mentorship Programs (including LGBTQ Refugee Mentorship in Canada, Refugee Women Mentorship in Europe, and general Refugee Mentorship in the US), and High-Impact Partnerships (corporate financial contributions and pro bono expertise). Distribution is delivered through an exclusive Members' Hub digital platform containing 200+ resources, peer-to-peer convenings, and tailored HR training, combined with on-the-ground execution by dedicated staff in 13 offices across 11 countries (Americas: Canada, Colombia, Mexico, US; Europe: France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, UK).

Tent's business model is non-transactional: membership is free of charge, and the organization is funded through 'High-Impact Partnerships' — voluntary corporate donations and pro bono support — along with associated grant-making activity. Named members include adidas, Amazon, BBVA, Chobani, FedEx, FEMSA, H&M Group, L'Oréal, Pfizer, Starbucks, TD Bank Group, Unilever, Airbnb, BNP Paribas, CVS Health, Gap Inc., Google, Randstad, Sodexo, Teleperformance, Coca-Cola, and Volkswagen, spanning consumer goods, financial services, hospitality, retail, healthcare, and technology. The organization is also a partner of UNHCR Sverige and was named to TIME Magazine's TIME100 Most Influential Companies list in 2024.

Name

Tent Partnership for Refugees

Legal name

Tent Foundation

Website

https://tent.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

التنظيم (Tent Partnership for Refugees) is a non-profit business coalition, founded in 2016 by Hamdi Ulukaya, that mobilizes 500+ major employers across 11 countries through free membership to connect refugees to meaningful employment via hiring, mentorship, and corporate partnership programs.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Refugee Employment Coalition Services

NAICS

Emergency and Other Relief Services (624230), Business, Professional, Labor, Political, and Similar Organizations (8139)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Refugee, Migration & Displacement Support (BPAGABAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Refugee & Immigrant Support Services (BPAGAEAI), Refugee & Migrant Integration Enterprises (Livelihoods, Services) (BPAGALAN), Immigrant & Refugee Workforce Integration Programs (EDAAAOAJ)

Keywords

• Refugee employment
• Corporate coalition
• Refugee hiring
• Mentorship programs
• Nonprofit foundation

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices11 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Corporate Partnerships and Financial Support: Tent generates revenue through financial support from member companies. Companies deepen their partnership with Tent through financial contributions or by providing pro bono expertise to help scale the shared mission of connecting refugees to meaningful employment. Membership itself is free of charge for companies.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Tent Partnership for Refugees is a nonprofit business coalition that mobilizes and supports 500+ major employers across 11 countries to hire refugees at scale. It offers Hiring Programs, Mentorship Programs (including LGBTQ Refugee Mentorship, Refugee Women Mentorship, and Refugee Mentorship initiatives), High-Impact Partnerships with companies for financial or pro bono support, and an exclusive Members' Hub providing 200+ resources, peer-to-peer learning, and convenings — all delivered through free corporate membership.

Product overview

Tent Partnership for Refugees operates as a network-based platform that mobilizes and supports leading businesses across multiple countries to hire refugees at scale. The organization offers three core service offerings: Hiring Programs (direct hiring and staffing agency support), Mentorship Programs (professional development through structured mentorship initiatives including LGBTQ Refugee Mentorship, Refugee Women Mentorship, and general Refugee Mentorship), and High-Impact Partnerships (financial and pro bono expertise support). Members gain access to an exclusive Members' Hub platform providing 200+ resources, peer-to-peer learning, and convenings. The organization also produces country-specific guidebook resources for employers. All membership and member services are provided free of charge.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Hiring Programs Direct refugee hiring program through which companies strengthen local workforces by hiring refugees, while staffing agencies fill open roles with refugee talent. Available to all Tent member companies and partner organizations.
• Mentorship Programs
• High-Impact Partnerships
• Members' Hub
• Employers' Guide to Hiring Refugees

Quantifiable outcome

• Tent is over 500 major employers strong with members spanning industries from consumer goods to hospitality, retail to manufacturing
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers22 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

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Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• UNHCR SverigecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUNHCR Sverige collaborated with Tent Sverige on the 'Employers Guide to Hiring Refugees in Sweden' (Arbetsgivarguide för Sverige: Rekrytering av personer med flyktingbakgrund), an introductory guide for companies interested in hiring people with refugee backgrounds in Sweden.
• VolkswagencoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerVolkswagen is a member of Tent Deutschland. Since joining Tent, Volkswagen has worked with Tent in Germany to connect refugees to jobs by hiring them into their workforce.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• HIAS: HIAS is a large international Jewish refugee resettlement agency providing legal aid, employment support, and integration services — a broader incumbent whose workforce programs overlap with Tent's employment-focused work.
• UNHCR (UN Refugee Agency): UNHCR is the UN agency mandated with global refugee protection and works alongside Tent on country-level employer guides (e.g., Sweden) — a large incumbent setting policy frameworks within which Tent's corporate programs operate.
• International Rescue Committee (IRC): The IRC is one of the largest humanitarian NGOs globally, delivering refugee resettlement services including employment programs across many countries — comparable but with a much wider humanitarian mandate beyond employment.

Direct peers

• Upwardly Global: Upwardly Global connects refugee and immigrant professionals in the US to skilled employment via employer partnerships and mentorship — a direct functional peer in the refugee workforce integration category.
• Welcome.US: Welcome.US is a US-based initiative mobilizing corporations and citizens to support refugees arriving in the US, with employer hiring commitments — a direct peer operating in the same corporate-coalition space, though focused on the US.
• Talent Beyond Boundaries: Talent Beyond Boundaries is a nonprofit that builds employer pipelines for skilled refugees through corporate partnerships — directly comparable to Tent's refugee-to-employment mission, though smaller in scope and focused on skilled migration.

Others

• Randstad (corporate member peer perspective): Randstad is a Tent member but also a global staffing firm with refugee-hiring programs of its own — listed as an adjacent ecosystem participant illustrating how commercial staffing companies overlap with Tent's employer coalition model.

Emerging players

• Welcoming America: Welcoming America builds city- and county-level welcoming frameworks for immigrant and refugee integration, including employer engagement — thematically aligned with Tent's employer mobilization but operating at a different layer (civic rather than corporate).
• RefugePoint: RefugePoint focuses on refugee self-reliance and economic inclusion through partnerships with employers — a niche peer operating in adjacent refugee livelihood programming.
• Hire Purpose (formerly Refugee Hiring): Hire Purpose is a smaller US-focused nonprofit helping companies recruit and retain refugees through employer training and direct hiring support — comparable in mission but narrower in geographic and corporate scale than Tent.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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