Book Club

Nonprofit Book Club

The CFJC’s Nonprofit Book Club has read and discussed 15 books together, and we welcome you to join us for Book #16! This opportunity is open to anyone – donors, nonprofit partners, and community members. The Nonprofit Book Club is an informal space for professional development, networking, and learning. We hope you can join us.

Book Club Discussion

“David & Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants” by Malcolm Gladwell

The focus of the next Johnson County Nonprofit Alliance Book Club Event will be Malcolm Gladwell’s “David and Goliath” which explores the power of the underdog and dives into the power of motivation. We hope you will join us (whether or not you’ve finished, or even started, the book!) for a discussion on “David and Goliath” on June 3rd from 10-11:30am at Prairie Lights Books and Cafe. If you are able to attend the in-person discussion, please RSVP below to give us an idea of how many people to expect! We hope you can pop in for our discussion on the power of the underdog, motivation, and success.

Summary: In David and Goliath, Gladwell challenges how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, offering a new interpretation of what it means to be discriminated against, or cope with a disability, or lose a parent, or attend a mediocre school, or suffer from any number of other apparent setbacks. Gladwell begins with the real story of what happened between the giant and the shepherd boy those many years ago. From there, David and Goliath examines Northern Ireland’s Troubles, the minds of cancer researchers and civil rights leaders, murder and the high costs of revenge, and the dynamics of successful and unsuccessful classrooms—all to demonstrate how much of what is beautiful and important in the world arises from what looks like suffering and adversity.