The Salvation Army and the Red Cross: the Kroc Center at the boundary, its gift source named — and no Granger drive or chapter seat on this ground

2007–2026 · both county-seated in South Bend

The Salvation Army, with the Kroc gift whole: The Army's named center for this county is the Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center in South Bend, and its gift source is the largest single charitable bequest of its kind in the record: Joan Kroc — widow of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc — left The Salvation Army some $1.5–1.8 billion in her estate (the figure as her gift's accounts give it, settled above $1.8 billion after the estate closed, distributed to the Army's four territories 2005–2010) to build and endow Kroc centers in underserved communities, following her $92 million gift that built the first, in San Diego, in 1998–2002. South Bend was one of only ten Midwestern cities to pre-qualify (December 2004) and the only one in Indiana; on 13 March 2007 the city announced a $40 million Kroc grant for the South Bend center — $5 million more than first allocated — on the 8.5-acre Alonzo Watson Park site at Chapin Street and Western Avenue, which the city contributed, with a $10 million local endowment match to raise under Father Theodore Hesburgh as honorary chair, and a program of aquatics center, gym and climbing wall, recording studio, chapel and greenhouse. The center opened in January 2012 among that year's national class of Kroc openings, and counted at least 7,000 members within its first couple of months. That is the Army at county size: a South Bend seat, a national gift, a county membership — Granger inside the membership's geography and nowhere named as a seat.

The Red Cross chapter: The American Red Cross chapter serving this county is seated in South Bend (the Red Cross of St. Joseph County, in the Northern Indiana chapter structure), and its Granger record in the sources reached is the standard chapter record — blood drives, disaster response and preparedness across the county — with no Granger-seated office, drive headquarters or disaster-relief operation specific to the CDP published in the record reached. Both halves of the register's pair therefore print the same verdict at different weights: the Army carries a named center and a named gift at the boundary; the Cross carries a chapter at the boundary and a tested negative for any Granger seat or Granger-specific operation.

Sources:

1. City of South Bend news release, 13 March 2007 (Office of the Mayor; docs.southbendin.gov) — the $40 million Kroc grant; the Watson Park site; the $10 million local match; Hesburgh honorary chair; the planned facilities; the 2008 construction and 2009 opening then expected (the center in fact opened January 2012 — both dates printed).
2. The NonProfit Times, Kroc centers completion account — Joan Kroc's estate gift ($1.6 billion as first reported; more than $1.8 billion settled), the four-territory distribution 2005–2010, the San Diego prototype ($92 million, 1998), the South Bend center among the January 2012 openings with 7,000 members in its first months.
3. Settler named for the Granger drive/relief grain: the Granger Gazette's drive and relief notices — not reached in full text for this section.