The Incubator for Refugees

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One of the incubators aims is to help other food oters avoid the mistakes harmedy made by building strong roots from which they can explore desruptive new ideas. In two thousand 16 homdy founded the tent partnership for refugees. Over 200 companies signed up to the partnership with the aim of in hiring people whose own lives have been uprooted.

Your local community can be the power behind an epic scale story — because smart community investment always maximizes returns. No one knows this like Hamdi Ulukaya, the founder and CEO of Chobani. He turned a small Upstate New York town into an epicenter of Greek yogurt by mobilizing a community to revive a mothballed dairy plant. In creating opportunities for new jobs, he created opportunities for massive scale. This story repeats over and over as the company grows, building communities with a sense of co-ownership. “This is not really a Hamdi story,” Ulukaya says. “This is a story about the people in our communities, what they're made of, and the values and capability that they have.”

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