[2] Established in 2016 and headquartered in New York City,[3] 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.

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.

[6] The Tent Partnership for Refugees was launched in 2016 at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

[7] The inaugural members of the Tent Alliance included Airbnb, Becton Dickinson, Chobani, Cotopaxi, Henry Schein, the IKEA Foundation, Johnson & Johnson, LinkedIn, MasterCard, Pearson, UPS, and Western Union.