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TESTED NOVEMBER 2026 · POSITIVE FOR THE COUNTY; NO GRANGER-SEATED EQUIVALENT
The test asks whether the institutions of this county ever built a fellowship or talent corporation together — the enFocus test — and the answer, at county frame, is positive and dated. EnFocus, Inc. — "entrepreneurial focus" — was launched in May 2012 in South Bend: Andrew Wiand, a South Bend native, and six peers in the University of Notre Dame's ESTEEM master's programme, fresh from a class trip to Durham's American Underground incubator, pitched a talent incubator to Notre Dame and local business leaders; the first seven fellows were hired in August 2012 to work on projects for eight South Bend partners, each fellow leading a sponsored innovation project with a local business leader as mentor. The corporation's course is growth on the same model: a $3 million Lilly Endowment grant in 2013 to grow and replicate the model across Indiana; by its tenth anniversary in May 2022, thirty-two fellows, five full-time staff, more than 150 sponsor partners and more than 350 completed innovation projects, with roughly seventy percent of fellows remaining in the region after their fellowships — brain drain answered, in its own accounting, as brain gain; and it stands in November 2026 at 635 South Lafayette Boulevard in South Bend, the county's fellowship corporation still running. The local half of the test is negative, and prints as a searched negative: no fellowship, talent-incubator or ESTEEM-analogue corporation stands at a Granger address in the exempt register read whole for this section, and no Granger organisation plays the enFocus role for this ground — Granger's graduates who fellow do so in South Bend, and its firms that sponsor do so through the county body. Positive for the county, negative for the ground: that is the test's whole result.
Sources: South Bend Regional Chamber, "enFocus Celebrates a Decade," 2022 (the May 2012 launch; the ESTEEM origin; the first seven fellows of August 2012; the tenth-anniversary counts). Notre Dame Magazine and the University of Notre Dame's ESTEEM record (the 2012 founding; the 2013 Lilly Endowment grant; the retention rate). EnFocus, its own published record, read November 2026 (the fellowship model; the South Lafayette Boulevard seat). The Granger exempt register, read whole November 2026 (the local negative).