The Freedom of Expression Movement

The Freedom Of Expression Movement (TFOEM) is a charitable organization, which aims to catalyze the shift from social awareness to social activism by bringing people, organizations and institutions together through an online platform supported by TFOEM’s ‘Public Involvement’ events.

Such ‘Public Involvement’ events will generate awareness for TFOEM.org and thus bring light to all the causes and institutions affiliated with the movement. These events are aimed at increasing the TFOEM member base in order to further the movement’s goals. Public Involvement events are designed to integrate the public with various causes.

For example, Project Eyeball: “Eye Like it”, is a sub-movement initiated by TFOEM that aims to inspire people to use any form of expression to attract ‘Eye Balls’. Dancing on the streets, flash crowds, street theatre et cetera are examples. As long as such activities, directly or indirectly, help manifest TFOEM’s goals, the sub-movement will be successful. 

The Platform, tfoem.org enables like-minded entities to work together and synergistically towards a common cause. Registered members of tfoem.org can create causes and build awareness for them through TFOEM’s network. With enough support, the founders of these causes can create and organize events, thus completing the shift from social awareness to social activism.

Ashoka’s Youth Ventures, a global movement that inspires, invests, and supports young people to lead social change, has joined hands with the TFOEM team to create the first series of ‘causes’ that will be listed on TFOEM.org. We have pledged a proportion of our initial funding to showcase and further enhance/develop the reach of several youth ventures operating in Mumbai.

TFOEM aims to develop the relationship between people, the planet and profit. By drawing on the concept of the “triple bottom line” the key to profit optimization and sustainability in the social sector is taking into account the effects of any action on all three components together: people, planet and profit.