Grant Funding

In a new approach to care funding, FightMND will invest in three pillars of support to help drive evidence-based improvement and collaboration. These pillars are

Evidence: A program of research to improve and help inform care for people living with motor neurone disease (MND)
Standards: The development of national guidelines and frameworks of MND care for allied health professionals and carers
Support: Targeted support for people living with MND, their carers and families – including additional support for those aged over 64 and equipment for at-home needs.

Together, we can not only defeat this Beast, but tame it so that everyone who is diagnosed with MND now, and into the future, can live engaged and successful lives, surrounded by people they love.

FightMND 2025 Care Grants

FightMND is pleased to announce the following grant opportunities to invest in MND Care Support and Care Research in 2025.

Care Support

Medical equipment / assistive technologies and support services

This grant provides up to $150,000 to invest in medical equipment or assistive technologies, as well as care packages and support services that can rapidly improve the quality of life of people living with MND.

Improving and innovating MND Care

This grant provides up to $250,000 to invest in programs (including education, training, building networks, innovative ways to improve support etc) that will improve the quality of life of people living with, or affected by MND in the mid to long term.

ELIGIBILITY

Applications are open to Australian not-for-profit organisations who work within the MND care and support space.

Care Support Grant guidelines

Care Research

FightMND’s 2025 Care Research grants aim to support research initiatives that, through innovation and collaboration, are able to expand on current research and knowledge, or address knowledge gaps and investigate new areas of care research.

Two funding opportunities are available:

Care Research Grants

This grant provides up to $250,000 research funding into innovating and improving best-practice MND Care over 2 years.

Care Seed Funding

This grant is designed to encourage research professionals to engage and collaborate with clinicians, allied health professionals, and / or people living with MND with little to no research experience, on Care research projects. The grant provides up to $60,000, and projects must be completed within a 6-month to 1 year time frame.

ELIGIBILITY

Applications are open to researchers and healthcare/allied health professionals, with research based in Australia. Collaboration with researchers based overseas is accepted.

Research grant guidelines Seed grant guidelines

Timeline & How to apply

Timeline

Applications open: 19 May 2025
Applications close: 19 July 2025
Grant notification:
Equipment and service support grants: September 2025
All other support and research grants: December 2025

How to apply

Applications to the grant round must be submitted through FightMND’s online grant management system, Fluxx.

Register and login to Fluxx
Step-by-step manual on how to register for Fluxx