Tent Partnership for Refugees CEO Gideon Maltz Named 2025 Charles Bronfman Prize Laureate

January 15, 2025 – Gideon Maltz, CEO of the Tent Partnership for Refugees (Tent), has been named the 2025 recipient of The Charles Bronfman Prize, an annual award recognizing young humanitarians whose work is inspired by Jewish values and has global impact.

“The Judges made an outstanding choice this year,” said Charles Bronfman. “Gideon’s groundbreaking work with the Tent Partnership for Refugees exemplifies the Jewish imperative to ‘welcome the stranger’ and demonstrates the power of business to drive meaningful social change. By forging strategic partnerships with global corporations, he has created real pathways for refugees to rebuild their lives with dignity and economic security.”

“I am incredibly honored to be the 2025 recipient of the prestigious Charles Bronfman Prize, which is an extraordinary recognition of Tent’s impact and our unique work with the world’s largest employers to connect refugees to jobs,” said Gideon Maltz, CEO of Tent. “At this urgent moment when the global refugee crisis is at an all-time high, I am grateful The Prize will help us reach even more companies to hire even more refugees – helping them restart their lives in their new communities.”

Gideon will join a cohort of Charles Bronfman Prize laureates who have created a reverberative impact in refugee rights, medicine, environment, education, criminal justice, food justice, entrepreneurship, the arts and more. 

Find out more about The Charles Bronfman Prize here and Gideon’s selection as the 2025 Prize Laureate here.