Change the future of tinnitus.
Tinnitus Action was built around one question:
How can we minimise the time to better treatments?
Research needs people, funding, skills and connections. We help you find a current need you can contribute to, and turn frustration into action.
You choose what feels manageable. One action can be enough for today.
17 actions are currently open.
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Choose what you can offer
Tell us what you can offer—time, skills, funding or a useful connection—and choose a level of commitment that fits your life.
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See your matches. You decide.
See up to three current actions that fit what you can offer, with a clear reason for each match. Choose the one that feels right for you.
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Do one thing. See it add up
Complete your action and add it to our shared record. See your contribution become part of a growing collective effort.
Already have an action in mind that supports treatment research? You can record your own, too—it stays self-defined and self-reported.
One action. Two streams of change.
The same action can contribute to research progress and feel meaningful to the person making it.
For people
Compost pain into purpose.
Lived experience and frustration can become meaningful contribution, connection, agency and hope—with the aim of living better along the way.
For progress
Shorten the path to better treatments.
Direct time, funding, skills and influence towards real bottlenecks, including work towards treatments that reduce or silence tinnitus itself.
All four categories can contribute to both pathways. You choose what fits your life.
Two pathways, shared actions
Resources
Time, funding, skills and influence
People, relationships and a reviewed catalogue
InputsActivities
Enable coordinated action
Four ways to contribute to a current need
Current measurement focusFor progress
Outputs
Contributions reach recipients
Referrals, gifts, messages and delivered work
Current measurement focusNear-term outcomes
Research bottlenecks ease
Recruitment, funding, skills and decisions improve
Intended changeLonger-term outcomes
A shorter path to better treatments
Help reduce delays in research, development and access
Intended changeFor people
Outputs
Actions and connections made
Completed actions, learning and helpful exchanges
Current measurement focusNear-term outcomes
Agency, hope and belonging
Contribution offers purpose, connection and possibility
Intended changeLonger-term outcomes
Live better along the way
More room for a good life beyond tinnitus
Intended changeMeaningful, freely chosen participation and useful contributions to real needs are the assumptions connecting actions with these intended changes. Choose contributions that fit your energy, interests and life.
Our current measurement focus
At this stage, we focus on completed actions and outputs. Systematic measurement of outcomes and Tinnitus Action’s contribution to them is beyond our current resources. The outcomes shown describe the changes we aim to help create.
What sits behind each action
How we choose and match actions
We select actions with a clear connection to treatment progress, a current need and a practical next step. Each names a recipient, public output or verifiable next step, and includes sources and review dates. Published actions and explanations are human-reviewed; where a need is our reading rather than the recipient’s request, we make that clear.
Rule-based matching checks what you can offer, time, cost, location and eligibility, then shows up to three current matches with reasons. Paused and closed actions are not suggested. Movement-building actions support the people and connections around research and are labelled accordingly; when two actions fit equally well, more direct research contributions come first.
You decide what to do. Templates work without AI; optional, user-controlled AI can help explain or draft, but never chooses or ranks actions, adds recipients or sends anything. You choose the recipient and send your message yourself. No organisation can pay for placement.
Sources support the specific claim shown, not a promise of treatment success or recipient endorsement. Automated page checks flag changes for review; a person decides whether an opportunity remains valid.
Explore our approach and independence, suggest an action or correction, or use the action coach and letter planner.
How we count actions and look after your information
The public count holds actions aimed at tinnitus research, treatment development or the capacity needed to advance them. Coping, self-care, purchases, reading and intentions are not counted — not because they do not matter, but because this number is about moving treatment forward.
An action joins the shared record when you tell us you sent, submitted, donated or completed it—not when you open a destination or prepare a draft. Counts show self-reported activity, not verified research outcomes. Your own actions remain self-defined, self-reported and unreviewed; their free-text descriptions are not published or stored by Tinnitus Action.
No account is needed, and matching does not ask about symptoms or medical history. A completion has a random receipt code and may include your country if you choose to share it. An optional free account lets you keep actions together privately; recording an action does not automatically attach it to an account. You choose whether to save or attach it. Signing in does not subscribe you to monthly updates.
Optional AI runs only when requested. Browser drafts and saved plans, account information and your choices are explained in Privacy. See Our Progress for the shared record and Terms for account management.