Speaking, Publishing, Professional Association

David Bea

• BootCamp for New Nonprofit CEOs: Current Legal Issues Affecting Nonprofits; sponsored by the Axelson Center for Nonprofit Management (Each August from 2019-2024)
• Federal Tax Conference: Recent Developments in Tax Exempt Organization Law; sponsored by the Illinois Bar Association (February, 2019)
• Federal Tax Conference: Recent Developments in Tax Exempt Organization Law; sponsored by the Illinois Bar Association (February, 2018)
• The Various Legal Structures of Social Enterprises, special lecture for a class at the Illinois Institute of Technology (Fall semester, 2017)
• BootCamp for New Nonprofit CEOs: Current Legal Issues Affecting Nonprofits; sponsored by the Axelson Center for Nonprofit Management (August, 2017)
• Federal Tax Conference: Recent Developments in Tax Exempt Organization Law; sponsored by the Illinois Bar Association (February, 2016)
• State Regulation Affecting Nonprofit Charitable Organizations, Exempt Organizations Division of the Federal Tax Committee of the Chicago Bar Association (October, 2015)
• Federal Tax Conference: Recent Developments in Tax Exempt Organization Law; sponsored by the Illinois Bar Association (February, 2015)
• Organizing for Social Enterprise: Non-Profit vs. For-Profit, A Workshop Sponsored by The Law Office Bea & VandenBerk and GoodCity (December, 2014)
• Tax Treatment of Bitcoin, Internal Revenue Service TE/GE Advisory Council, Midwest Division (October, 2014)
• Organizing a Nonprofit, special lecture for a class on Museum Management for Adjunct Professor William Tyre, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Spring semester, 2013)
• Legal and Tax Issues in Publishing and Social Media, part of a seminar for nonprofits sponsored by the accounting firm of Capin Crouse, held at Northern Seminary, Lombard, Illinois (November, 2012)
• Application of Intellectual Property Law to Organizing Charitable Foot Races, Race Director University, Glen Ellyn, Illinois (May, 2012)
• Application of Fund Raising Law to Organizing Charitable Foot Races, Race Director University, Glen Ellyn, Illinois (May, 2012)
• Legal Issues in Social Media and E-Publishing, Exempt Organizations Division of the Federal Tax Committee of the Chicago Bar Association (February 2012)
• Joys, Responsibilities, and Perils of Lawyers Serving on Nonprofit Boards, seminar presented to the Young Professionals Board of Cabrini Green Legal Aid, Chicago (January, 2012)
• Organizing a Nonprofit, special lecture for a class on Entrepreneurship, Wheaton College (Spring semester, 2012)
• Legal Issues in Marketing, Illinois Association of Park Districts (January, 2012)
• State Regulation Affecting Nonprofit Charitable Organizations, Exempt Organizations Division of the Federal Tax Committee of the Chicago Bar Association (January, 2011)
• Intersections between Intellectual Property Law and Exempt Organizations, Chicago Bar Association (January, 2006)
• State Regulation Affecting Nonprofit Charitable Organizations, Chicago Bar Association (September, 2002)

Publications 

• “Organizing an Illinois Not-for-Profit Corporation.” Illinois Not-for-Profit Corporations. IICLE. ed 2024.
• “Merger and Consolidation, Sales of Assets, and Dissolution.” Illinois Not-for-Profit Corporations. Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (IICLE). ed 2024.
• “Organizing an Illinois Not-for-Profit Corporation.” Illinois Not-for-Profit Corporations. IICLE. ed 2021.
• “Merger and Consolidation, Sales of Assets, and Dissolution.” Illinois Not-for-Profit Corporations. IICLE. ed 2021.
• “Employment Issues.” Illinois Not-for-Profit Corporations. IICLE. ed 2017.
• “Merger and Consolidation, Sales of Assets, and Dissolution.” Illinois Not-for-Profit Corporations. IICLE. ed 2017.
• “Government Regulations.” Illinois Not-for-Profit Corporations. IICLE. ed 2017.
• “Courts Illuminate the Criteria for Tax Exemption,” Taxation of Exempts. (September/October 2011), by Bea, David L. and Mays, Daniel J.
• General editor of the educational articles appearing on law firm website bealaw.com

Nonprofit Board Service 

• Audit Committee Member, Crossway (nonprofit religious publisher), Wheaton, Illinois (2008-present)
• Board Member, Glessner House Museum, Chicago (2003-present; as Vice President 2014-2016)
• Board Member and Personnel Committee Member, Cabrini Green Legal Aid, Chicago, (1997-2017; and as Board Chair 1998-2000)
• Board Member, College Church in Wheaton, Wheaton, Illinois

Professional Associations 

• Member, Illinois State Bar Association
• Member, Chicago Bar Association
• Chair, Exempt Organizations Division of the Federal Tax Committee, Chicago Bar Association (2011-2012)
• Vice Chair, Exempt Organizations Division of the Federal Tax Committee, Chicago Bar Association (2010-2011)