Our Purpose:
Our Purpose:
Lifting up the unlucky third of the world through useful inventions
Billions in Change creates useful inventions to enable a higher quality of life for billions of people.
What is Billions in Change?
Billions in Change develops and delivers inventions that help the unlucky half of the world meet basic needs for water, electricity, food, and healthcare. These essentials lay the groundwork for enhanced education, health, and economic opportunities, empowering individuals to uplift their lives and those around them. To learn more, watch the film.
Our Founder
Billions in Change is led by billionaire Manoj Bhargava, founder of Truly Essential and creator of 5-hour ENERGY, who believes those with more have a duty to serve those with less. He is committed to enabling the unlucky half of the world to obtain basic needs so they can live healthy, productive lives. That goal is the focus of the work he is funding through Stage 2, The Hans Foundation, and The Hans Foundation Hospitals. Manoj has dedicated 99 percent of his wealth to helping those in need and is employing a unique zero-profit business model in order to serve as many people as possible.
What Billions in Change does Different
The key is enablement - offering a hand up, not a hand out. These inventions focus on providing free electricity, clean water, and free fertilizer because addressing these fundamental needs "enables" everything that follows. This approach creates the conditions that enable people to become educated, take care of their health, and make a living. The fundamental areas of energy, water, food, and health enable not only wellness and livelihood, but they also propel lasting solutions to the world’s biggest problems.