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Director of Development
As Director of Development, David Gee oversees all aspects of the Foundation’s fundraising and marketing activities. Gee’s responsibilities include fostering the organization’s growth and visibility, as well as maintaining and strengthening the CBF's donor relationships. To support the development goals of the CBF, Gee implements the Foundation’s overall marketing strategies with a specific emphasis on enhancing the Foundation’s development infrastructures.
In collaboration with the Executive Director and the Foundation’s Development and Marketing Committees, Gee both creates and manages the CBF’s annual development plan and budget. He implements strategies to expand the CBF’s individual donor programs, in particular the Lincoln Circle and Life Fellows programs. He executes the Foundation’s annual campaigns targeted to previous and prospective donors and implements strategies to encourage alternate individual giving options that include CBA Dues check-off, gifts of stock and major planned gifts. Gee assists with the Foundation’s promotion as a recipient of cy pres awards. He also facilitates the increased presence of the Foundation within the community at large by coordinating promotional materials, media placement and web design.
Prior to joining the CBF, Gee worked as a professional actor in Chicago for over 18 years. Primarily an on-camera and voice-over commercial performer on television and radio, he also worked on hundreds of corporate training films and live narration performances. He has conducted performance-based corporate training and served as a one-on-one communications coach for corporate executives, attorneys and other business and community leaders. As 2nd Vice President of Chicago’s Chapter of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Gee helped devise the first ever self-pay group insurance plan for actors in need of coverage. A member of the Screen Actors Guild, he served as the annual fund chair for the Kaufherr Members Resource Center and as a Delegate to the Chicago Federation of Labor. He is both a founding member of and Chairs the Board of Ravenswood Community Services, a community-based non-profit organization focused on hunger relief and social justice initiatives in Chicago’s North side communities.
Gee received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre from Illinois Wesleyan University.
An active member of All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Gee has embraced his new role in no small part due to the integral value of the Foundation’s mission in our democracy. As he puts it, ''My level of excitement for what is possible here and what we can do and what we will do is what compelled me to make this change. I don't think there's anyone I will encounter for as long as I do this job that won't agree there is an urgent need in this community to make sure that the most vulnerable of our citizens have access to justice.''
Gee lives with his family on the Northwest side of Chicago.
In collaboration with the Executive Director and the Foundation’s Development and Marketing Committees, Gee both creates and manages the CBF’s annual development plan and budget. He implements strategies to expand the CBF’s individual donor programs, in particular the Lincoln Circle and Life Fellows programs. He executes the Foundation’s annual campaigns targeted to previous and prospective donors and implements strategies to encourage alternate individual giving options that include CBA Dues check-off, gifts of stock and major planned gifts. Gee assists with the Foundation’s promotion as a recipient of cy pres awards. He also facilitates the increased presence of the Foundation within the community at large by coordinating promotional materials, media placement and web design.
Prior to joining the CBF, Gee worked as a professional actor in Chicago for over 18 years. Primarily an on-camera and voice-over commercial performer on television and radio, he also worked on hundreds of corporate training films and live narration performances. He has conducted performance-based corporate training and served as a one-on-one communications coach for corporate executives, attorneys and other business and community leaders. As 2nd Vice President of Chicago’s Chapter of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Gee helped devise the first ever self-pay group insurance plan for actors in need of coverage. A member of the Screen Actors Guild, he served as the annual fund chair for the Kaufherr Members Resource Center and as a Delegate to the Chicago Federation of Labor. He is both a founding member of and Chairs the Board of Ravenswood Community Services, a community-based non-profit organization focused on hunger relief and social justice initiatives in Chicago’s North side communities.
Gee received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre from Illinois Wesleyan University.
An active member of All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Gee has embraced his new role in no small part due to the integral value of the Foundation’s mission in our democracy. As he puts it, ''My level of excitement for what is possible here and what we can do and what we will do is what compelled me to make this change. I don't think there's anyone I will encounter for as long as I do this job that won't agree there is an urgent need in this community to make sure that the most vulnerable of our citizens have access to justice.''
Gee lives with his family on the Northwest side of Chicago.