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 2026 Care Grants

Care Support

Medical equipment / assistive technologies and support services

This grant provides up to $100,000 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.

Guildelines

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.

Guidelines

ELIGIBILITY

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

Care Research

FightMND’s 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.

Research grant guidelines

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 12 – 18 month 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. 

Seed grant guidelines

Timeline & How to apply

Timeline

Applications open: 27 April 2026
Applications close: 3 July 2026
Grant notification:
Project start date: March / April 2027 (latest start by September 2027)

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
Please note that grants will not be open for application until the 27^th of April.

Pitch Your Research

Have a research idea, but:

Unsure if it would be a good fit for a grant application?
Need some constructive feedback?
Looking for general advice?

FightMND is hosting a Pitch Presentation morning the 29th of May. This morning aims to support healthcare professionals and early career researchers considering submitting a competitive grant application.

During the morning participants will have the opportunity to present their research ideas to a panel of researchers, experts in MND care and people with lived experience. The panel will provide advice on how to improve your idea, and feedback on how to submit a competitive grant application for funding through FightMND, MND Australia, NHMRC and other local and international grant bodies.

Key dates:

Pitch applications open: April 9th to May 8th
Invite to pitch: 15th May
Pitch Morning: 29th May

Download the guidelines and application form Example application form