The Tent Partnership for Refugees, previously known as the Tent Foundation, is a non-profit organization founded by

Hamdi Ulukaya Hamdi Ulukaya (born 26 October 1972, Iliç) is a Turkish billionaire businessman, activist, and philanthropist of Kurdish ethnicity based in the United States. Ulukaya is the owner, founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Chobani, the ...

, the founder and CEO of

Chobani Chobani is an American food company specializing in strained yogurt. The company was founded in 2005 by Hamdi Ulukaya, a Turkish businessman. Chobani sells thick, Greek-style yogurt with a higher protein content than traditional yogurt and is one ...

Yogurt. It is a coalition of businesses that have committed to take action to help refugees. Established in 2016 and headquartered in New York City, the organization brings together companies to improve the lives of refugees. The Tent Partnership encourages businesses to play a more active role in addressing the crisis by hiring refugees, integrating them into supply chains, supporting refugee entrepreneurs, and delivering services to them.

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In 2015, Chobani's CEO and founder, Hamdi Ulukaya, signed the

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, committing to give the majority of his personal wealth to help end the global refugee crisis. He founded the Tent Foundation for this purpose. In 2016, the Tent Foundation incorporated the private sector commitments announced in response to President Obama's 2016 Call to Action for Private Sector Engagement on the Global Refugee Crisis. The Tent Partnership for Refugees was launched in 2016 at the World Economic Forum in

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. The inaugural members of the Tent Alliance included Airbnb, Becton Dickinson, Chobani, Cotopaxi,

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, the

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Foundation,

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, LinkedIn, MasterCard, Pearson,

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, and Western Union. Since 2016, this group has grown to more than 100 companies, including companies such as Salesforce, Deloitte, WeWork, and

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