We are proud to welcome Nick Black to the Special Operations Association of America board of Advisors. As a Ranger-qualified Army Officer with the 173rd Airborne and his experience helping some of the world’s largest nonprofits, Nick is an invaluable asset to the SOAA team and the greater SOF community that we serve.
Nick is a Co-Founder and CEO of GoodUnited, a venture capital-backed B2B SaaS company that’s built the first direct messaging fundraising solution for nonprofits. GoodUnited has helped the world’s largest nonprofits raise over $1 billion. Nick’s work with GoodUnited resulted in being named a finalist for EY’s Southeast Entrepreneur of the Year as well as The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s 2017 Distinguished Young Alumnus, the first ever awardee from the MBA program.
Nick has been an innovator and leader at the intersection of business and social impact for over fifteen years. The concept for GoodUnited came through Nick’s work co-founding and leading Stop Soldier Suicide, a 501c3 that grew from a startup to one of the largest and most impactful post-9/11 veteran-serving nonprofits in the country. Stop Soldier Suicide’s growth and impact resulted in Nick being selected as a Presidential Leadership Scholar and a Leadership North Carolina Fellow.
Nick co-founded Stop Soldier Suicide from his experiences leading Paratroopers as a Ranger-qualified Army Officer with the 173rd Airborne during 27 months deployed to combat zones in Afghanistan. During Nick’s six years of service he was awarded two Bronze Stars, an Army Commendation Medal for Valor and as a Field Artillery Officer, was repeatedly ranked 1st among 50 peer Officers in a premier Infantry Battalion.
Nick received a BA from The Johns Hopkins University. At Johns Hopkins, Nick was a four-year member of the Varsity football team, the first two-time President of Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity and a four-year scholarship winner of the Army ROTC program.
Nick received a MBA from Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina. At Kenan-Flagler, Nick was awarded the Rollie Tillman Award for Leadership, selected as a Kenan Institute Leadership Fellow, was President of the Veterans Club and awarded the Kenan-Flagler Business School’s 2018 Distinguished Young Alumnus.
Nick wrote the book on social and direct messaging fundraising titled One Click to Give, an Amazon bestseller, and lives in Charleston South Carolina with his wife Amanda. Amanda and Nick have a ten-year-old daughter, nine-year-old son and two awesome dogs.
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