Novick Cardiac Alliance

What Novick Cardiac Alliance does

Novick Cardiac Alliance, operating as Global Cardiac Alliance since April 2024, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable organization headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee. The organization delivers pediatric cardiac surgery and related care to children with congenital heart disease in low- and middle-income countries, while training local surgical, anesthesia, intensive-care, and perfusion teams to build sustainable in-country capacity. Its operating model centers on short-duration medical missions — short surgical trips in which a volunteer team of specialists travels to a partner hospital, performs a defined caseload, and works alongside host-country clinicians. Mission cost is publicly cited at a minimum of $60,000 per trip, with 168 trips completed across 20 countries and more than 2,800 lives saved since founding in October 2014.

The organization's technology footprint is modest and operational rather than product-oriented: a public website, cost-effectiveness calculators, a podcast channel, and published educational and donor-facing materials including the founder's 2024 book "Blue Babies, Bombs and Bad Places." There is no evidence of proprietary software, AI/ML systems, or platform technology. Field operations are enabled by partnerships with host-country hospitals and institutions (e.g., the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology in Pakistan) and, in select cases, multilateral bodies such as the World Health Organization (Libya mission).

Revenue mechanics are donation-driven: the organization funds its program through individual giving, corporate and institutional sponsorship, and recurring donor programs, with no fee-for-service pricing or commercial revenue. Headcount is reported at 11–50 employees, consistent with a small-to-mid-sized humanitarian nonprofit. The April 2024 rebrand from Novick Cardiac Alliance to Global Cardiac Alliance signals an intent to broaden programmatic and donor reach beyond a founder-centric identity, while a published 2026 trip schedule spanning Ukraine, DR Congo, and the Dominican Republic indicates continued geographic expansion.

Name

Novick Cardiac Alliance

Legal name

Global Cardiac Alliance Inc.

Website

https://cardiac-alliance.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Novick Cardiac Alliance, now operating as Global Cardiac Alliance, is a Memphis-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that performs pediatric cardiac surgery missions and trains local medical teams in low- and middle-income countries, funded primarily through donations and sponsorships.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Humanitarian Services

NAICS

Voluntary Health Organizations (813212), Emergency and Other Relief Services (62423)

SIC

Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090), Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Humanitarian Health & Emergency Medical Relief NGOs (HLAJAKAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

International & Local Implementing NGOs (HLAJAKAD), Humanitarian Health Coordination & Emergency Response Partnerships (HLAJAOAI), Maternal, Newborn, Child & Adolescent Health (MNCAH) Partnerships (HLAJAOAG)

Keywords

• Pediatric cardiac surgery
• Humanitarian medical missions
• Congenital heart disease care
• Surgical training programs
• Global cardiac healthcare

Headquarters

HQ city

Memphis

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Individual Donations: General donations from individuals supporting the organization's mission to save children with cardiac disease in LMIC countries
2. Sponsorship Programs: Sponsorships including O.R. Kit ($1,500), O.R. Kit + Airfare for 1 Volunteer ($2,500), Sponsor 1 Volunteer ($4,000), Sponsor O.R. Team of 5 ($20,000), and entire mission sponsorship ($60,000 minimum)
3. Everyday Giving: Designated donations for specific purposes: Heart Medication for Children ($25), General Surgical Supplies ($250), Heart-Lung Machine Supplies ($450)

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

Global Cardiac Alliance (formerly Novick Cardiac Alliance) is a nonprofit humanitarian medical organization that sends volunteer medical teams on international mission trips to perform pediatric cardiac surgery on children with congenital heart defects in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC), including active conflict and disaster zones. The core offering combines life-saving heart surgeries with hands-on training and education of local medical staff to build sustainable pediatric cardiac care capacity in partner hospitals across 20+ countries.

Product overview

Novick Cardiac Alliance (now Global Cardiac Alliance) is a humanitarian medical organization that operates as a single unified service offering: international pediatric cardiac surgery missions to Low-and Middle-Income Countries. The core offering consists of surgical missions providing life-saving heart surgery to children, combined with medical education and training programs for local healthcare workers to build sustainable cardiac care capacity. Additional offerings include the 'Blue Babies, Bombs and Bad Places' book, online surgical cost-effectiveness calculators, and a podcast series documenting the organization's humanitarian work.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Missions International medical mission trips providing pediatric cardiac surgery to children with congenital heart defects in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC), including active conflict and disaster zones. Each mission deploys a volunteer surgical team (surgeons, perfusionists, anesthesiologists, PICU nurses) to a partner hospital.
• Medical Volunteer Program Program that recruits licensed medical professionals (surgeons, perfusionists, anesthesiologists, PICU nurses, educators) to join pediatric cardiac surgery missions and provide clinical care and training abroad.
• Medical Education and Training Hands-on teaching and training of local healthcare teams including surgeons, cardiologists, perfusionists, and nurses in pediatric cardiac care techniques to build sustainable in-country surgical capacity at partner hospitals.
• Surgical Cost-Effectiveness Calculators Online calculators hosted on marcelocardarelli.com that estimate the incidence of congenital heart disease and the cost-effectiveness of 5-year detection plans and 10-year pediatric cardiac surgery programs in user-specified countries.
• Blue Babies, Bombs and Bad Places Book by William M. Novick, M.D. and Amanda Rose documenting Dr. Novick's experience establishing pediatric cardiac surgery programs in active conflict zones around the world. Sold via Amazon and promoted through the GCA book release page.
• Global Cardiac Alliance Podcasts Podcast series published via the cardiac-alliance.org website and YouTube channel (@novickcardiacalliance2070) covering GCA's humanitarian work, including interviews with Dr. William Novick on performing pediatric cardiac surgery in active war zones.

Quantifiable outcome

• 2,800+ lives saved since 2014
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• World Health Organization (WHO)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 15 November 2018With WHO support, Novick Cardiac Alliance provided specialized care to more than 200 patients during a visit to Tobruk, Libya in 2018. WHO officially supported the mission trip.
• Helping Hands for Honduras / Manos Ayudando a HondurascoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 December 2014Local partner in Honduras that welcomes and accompanies William Novick Global Cardiac Alliance in their two-fold mission of helping children with congenital heart defects and forming a Honduran cardiovascular team.
• Preemptive Love CoalitionminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 27 November 2014Celebrated the formation of Novick Cardiac Alliance as they work to bring healing to those suffering from congenital heart disease. Partner organization working in similar humanitarian spaces.
• Chernobyl Children InternationalminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 27 November 2014Irish organization that welcomed the launch of William Novick Global Cardiac Alliance and expressed support for future collaboration.
• Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology (AFIC) Rawalpindi PakistancoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMajor partner site where Dr. Novick made first of 17 surgical trips starting December 2005. Site has doubled successful surgeries and now offers state-of-the-art care comparable to European/US institutions, treating 700+ children per year.
• Rashaya Governmental Hospital LebanoncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHospital in southern Lebanon where Emmanuel from Liberia received surgery. Dr. Yasser Ammar is the medical director who confirmed case validity for visa purposes.
• Perfusion Without Borders (PWOB)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerScholarship program administered by American Society of Extracorporeal Technology that offers perfusion students travel expenses to join NCA mission trips. NCA has hosted PWOB scholarship winners for 4 consecutive years.
• Johns Hopkins HospitalminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerDr. Meghan Halub, a cardiothoracic surgery Fellow at Johns Hopkins, received STS Global Outreach Fellowship and joined NCA teams in Libya and Ukraine. Her experience was published in Annals of Thoracic Surgery.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• CardioStart International: Direct peer — international nonprofit performing pediatric and adult cardiac surgery missions in LMICs with volunteer teams on short trips, closely matching GCA's volunteer-mission and capacity-training hybrid model.
• Children's HeartLink: Direct peer — Minneapolis-based nonprofit running pediatric cardiac training partnerships with hospitals in LMICs, sharing GCA's training-plus-surgery model and target patient cohort. Listed alongside GCA in the same US nonprofit pediatric cardiac space.
• Team Heart: Direct peer — volunteer cardiac surgery mission organization focused on Rwanda delivering both surgeries and training to local staff, with a founder-driven, narrow-specialty model closely paralleling GCA.
• International Children's Heart Foundation: Direct peer — Dr. Novick and 17 co-founders left ICHF in 2014 after 22 years to found GCA, so ICHF operates an essentially identical mission model (pediatric cardiac surgery missions in LMICs) with the same target population and volunteer-driven delivery.
• Chain of Hope: Direct peer — UK-based charity founded by Sir Magdi Yacoub providing pediatric cardiac surgery and training in developing countries, with the same surgical-mission-plus-local-training approach as GCA.
• Heart Care International: Direct peer — small US-based nonprofit sending volunteer pediatric cardiac teams to LMICs for surgery and teaching, with a near-identical operating model, scale, and donor base to GCA.

Broad incumbents

• Project HOPE: Broad incumbent — established global health NGO delivering training and medical services across many specialties, comparable as a large donor-funded charity working in LMIC health systems but with much broader scope than GCA's pediatric cardiac focus.
• Samaritan's Purse: Broad incumbent — large faith-based humanitarian organization operating medical teams and disaster response globally, overlapping with GCA in conflict-zone medical delivery but covering far more service categories.
• Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF): Broad incumbent — much larger international humanitarian medical organization that also operates surgical missions in conflict zones and LMICs; GCA is a narrow specialty subset of MSF's broader humanitarian health delivery model.

Others

• Preemptive Love Coalition: Adjacent partner/peer — humanitarian organization working on conflict-related health issues (notably in Iraq) that explicitly partnered with NCA at founding; complements GCA's surgical missions with adjacent relief services and shares donor audience.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@novickcardiacalliance2070
• Facebookfacebook.com/cardiacalliance
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/william-novick-global-cardiac-alliance
• Instagraminstagram.com/cardiac_alliance
• Xx.com/cardiacalliance

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles18 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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