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The checklist's newest form is the fellowship corporation — the talent-retention nonprofit the region's institutions built together after 2010 — and its county instance is enFocus, South Bend's entire. enFocus was launched in May 2012 by Andrew Wiand, a South Bend native, and six peers from the University of Notre Dame's ESTEEM master's program, after a class trip to a Durham, North Carolina incubator; its first seven fellows were hired in August 2012 to work projects for eight South Bend partners; a $3 million Lilly Endowment grant followed in December 2013; and by its tenth anniversary in 2022 it counted more than 350 innovation projects for over 150 regional organizations, with an expansion into Elkhart County in 2018. The Mishawaka test is exact: no fellowship corporation is seated in Mishawaka, and none was founded here — the form's founding generation built it at Notre Dame and seated it in South Bend, at Union Station and then in the Studebaker Building on Lafayette Boulevard. enFocus's regional footprint reaches Mishawaka as a client geography, not a seat, and that is the whole of the city's line in the form: the talent corporation of the 2010s is a county institution in which Mishawaka stands, once again, inside a frame seated across the river.