Today, we are incredibly proud to announce that the Tent Partnership for Refugees has been selected to the fourth-annual TIME100 Most Influential Companies list, which recognizes companies making an extraordinary impact around the world! 🎉💯 Thank you TIME for highlighting Tent’s pioneering approach, transformational role in effectively galvanizing the world’s largest employers to connect refugees to jobs at scale – and underscoring that our work is “as valuable for the host countries and companies as it is for the refugees gaining employment.” Momentum has never been greater, and we are grateful to our 400+ member companies for their ongoing partnership with Tent and growing efforts to integrate refugees – a number of whom are fellow 2024 #TIME100Companies honorees, including Amazon, Microsoft, Pfizer, and Rappi! https://lnkd.in/dX7Ea6Tx
Tent Partnership for Refugees
International Affairs
New York, NY 38,326 followers
We're an international network of 400+ major companies helping refugees access labor markets via job prep & employment.
About us
With more and more refugees displaced around the world, businesses have a critical role to play in helping refugees integrate economically in their new communities. Tent was launched in 2016 by Hamdi Ulukaya, the CEO and founder of Chobani – a multibillion dollar food company in the U.S. – to mobilize businesses across the Americas and Europe to fill this gap. Today, Tent is a network of over 400 major companies committed to helping hundreds of thousands of refugees access local labor markets by helping them become job-ready and connecting them to work. Find out more at www.tent.org.
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http://tent.org
External link for Tent Partnership for Refugees
- Industry
- International Affairs
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- New York, NY
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2016
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200 Lafayette St
New York, NY 10012, US
Employees at Tent Partnership for Refugees
Updates
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The French government, through our partner Délégation interministérielle à l'accueil et à l'intégration des réfugiés (Diair), commissioned a report published recently that lays out implementation guidance for key stakeholders - including policy makers and business leaders - to advance refugees' labor market integration. 🇫🇷 Tent France contributed key insights for the report, including best practices from member companies as well as expertise around how businesses must be intentional about including refugees in their workforce – including by adapting their hiring processes to address the common barriers refugees face when trying to find work. As Tent France stands ready to help even more companies operating in the country start or scale up their efforts to create more inclusive workplaces for refugee talent, we invite you to get in touch and join us! https://lnkd.in/dUYf9Nb4
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Recently, long-time Tent Partnership for Refugees member company Blackstone hosted its third annual Career Pathways Summit in New York – which included a special session showcasing innovative approaches to hiring and onboarding untapped talent, including refugees. Yaron Schwartz, Director of Tent U.S., joined and shared how businesses can effectively work with Tent to start or scale up their refugee hiring programs, with Blackstone itself as a best-in-class case study for a company leading by example and ambitiously expanding their impact – having committed in 2022 to hire 2,000 refugees and already welcoming hundreds across its portfolio of companies. Thanks to the Blackstone team for an insightful day alongside your extensive network of portfolio companies and partner organizations!
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Yesterday, Tent UK hosted an event in London to launch our new comprehensive guide for how UK employers can hire refugees – developed in collaboration with the Refugee Council. Thanks to the 30 #TentUK member companies that joined us to get an exclusive first look and deep dive on best practices as well as the key steps companies in the UK can take to employ refugees and, in doing so, strengthen their business. Special thanks too to Niki Turner-Harding, UK CEO of Adecco for hosting us at the company’s London HQ for the day and Duncan Wells from Refugee Council for sharing compelling examples of companies in the UK that have successfully integrated refugees into their workforces. We hope all attendees left inspired and we look forward to keeping up the hiring momentum with you! The new UK Employers’ Guide to Hiring Refugees is free to access here: https://lnkd.in/eMnkHcSe
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Are you a media-savvy professional with 10+ years of external communications experience across the U.S. and Latin America, as well as a passion for making a real impact? If so, the Tent Partnership for Refugees is looking for a bilingual (English & Spanish) Associate Director of Communications to lead our efforts across the Americas and we’d love to hear from you! Join our mission-driven team that is mobilizing the world’s largest companies to connect refugees to jobs and help advance our mission through the power of communications. This new role will help shape and execute our communications strategy in the Americas – including the cultivation of key press relationships, executive visibility efforts, regional events, member company comms support, and more. 📍 Hybrid in NYC or remote elsewhere in the U.S. Apply today! https://lnkd.in/eUbHiyBt #socialimpact #socialimpactjobs #commsjobs
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Thanks to Goals House for having Tent Partnership for Refugees' CEO Gideon Maltz alongside leaders from our member companies McDonald's and Mastercard to dive into the importance and business benefits of inclusive employment! #UNGA79
Thanks to Beth Hart, Chief Sustainability and Social Impact Officer at McDonald's and Randall M. Tucker, Chief Inclusion Officer at Mastercard for a great discussion on inclusive employment at Goals House yesterday. We're proud to count McDonald's and Mastercard as members of Tent Partnership for Refugees and loved hearing your message that inclusive employment is a business imperative, now more than ever. Thanks to Bennett Richardson for moderating!
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To further advance our common goal of helping refugees enter the labor market and access decent jobs, we’re delighted to announce the Tent Partnership for Refugees and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency have signed a strategic global partnership agreement! 🖊️ This reinforces our long-standing relationship and will strengthen our collaboration in key countries as we work even more closely together to mobilize the business community to accelerate the workforce inclusion of refugees. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gdyajpa3
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Tent Partnership for Refugees reposted this
Amazing conversation with Katie Couric and Laurene Powell Jobs at Clinton Global Initiative today. We talked about the importance of coming at solutions from different angles, operating in different dimensions, the power of partnerships… This is the way forward. When Chobani first opened, I wanted to make healthy food accessible to more people. But in reopening a yogurt factory that was closing down, I saw just how linked the business was to the community… they only thrive together. Then we needed to hire people. There were refugees in Utica who could legally work but weren’t finding jobs. We hired buses and translators, did the training — and in return got some of the most dedicated people who have helped make Chobani successful. And those refugees who risked their lives to come here, they get their dignity back. They create homes. They give back to the community. What worked for Chobani will work for other businesses. With Tent Partnership for Refugees, we are scaling this model, working with over 450 companies around the world to hire, train, and mentor refugees. Take what we’ve learned in Mexico. With job opportunities, refugees and migrants would stay and work, and there are over 60 companies in Tent México eager to hire them. We are helping connect the two. This is just one example of what’s working and why businesses have to be a part of the solution. Because every time a refugee gets a job the world is a better place.
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Tent Partnership for Refugees reposted this
I was honored to join the U.S. Department of State ministerial meeting hosted yesterday by Secretary Blinken, Secretary David Lammy, President Ilan Goldfajn, and Børge Brende, focused on strengthening the humanitarian system. In my remarks, I shared that our model at Tent Partnership for Refugees -- focused on mobilizing large employers to hire forcibly displaced migrants -- will not be relevant in all humanitarian contexts, but it can play a critical role in countries like Mexico and Colombia with dropping birth rates, aging populations, and structural labor shortages. Major employers can be persuaded to invest in hiring forcibly displaced migrants -- benefitting the migrants, strengthening the economy, and reducing pressure on governments. But employers need greater clarity on work authorization; quicker processing of work and tax documents; greater freedom of movement for migrants, including those waiting for asylum; and greater clarity on banking regulations. Thanks to Julieta Valls Noyes for spearheading this initiative and for her relentless focus on bringing the private sector into humanitarian and displacement policy.
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This #HispanicHeritageMonth, Tent Partnership for Refugees celebrates the incredible contributions that Hispanic #refugees are making to both the U.S. economy and its communities. Over the past decade, the U.S. has welcomed hundreds of thousands of forcibly displaced people from Latin America – including from Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, and the Northern Triangle – all eager to contribute and grow professionally. 🇺🇸 🌎 Our Hispanic Refugee Mentorship Program, in partnership with the The National Hispanic Corporate Council (NHCC), has connected hundreds of Hispanic refugees with professional mentors from member companies including Bank of America, Google, Mondelēz International, TelevisaUnivision, and Uber. Through this initiative, participating employees are helping these newcomers navigate the U.S. job market, integrate into the workforce, and thrive in their new careers. Más información sobre el programa aquí y conoce los testimonios de los refugiados que han sido formados: https://lnkd.in/edDxdibJ #MesDeLaHerenciaLatina