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The class tested is the talent corporation: a nonprofit whose business is importing and placing young professional talent — fellows — into a region's employers. Its regional exemplar is enFocus, and the exemplar is first fixed at record size so the test has something definite to test against. enFocus was launched in May 2012 in South Bend by Andrew Wiand and six fellow graduates of Notre Dame's ESTEEM master's programme, after a spring 2012 trip to the American Underground incubator in Durham, North Carolina; it is a one-year fellowship that hires recent graduates to work on innovation projects for area sponsors. Its first seven fellows were hired in August 2012 for eight South Bend partners, and its own account credits the first year with identifying $3.2 million in unrealized savings for sponsors, more than $1 million of it in the city's fire department alone. A $3 million grant in 2013, from the Lilly Endowment through Notre Dame, funded growth and replication; the model expanded into Elkhart County in 2017; at its decade mark in 2022 it counted thirty-two fellows and five staff.
Run against this ground, the test is negative in both of its halves. enFocus's own record seats it in South Bend and Elkhart; no fellowship was placed, sponsored or seated in Walkerton in any source reached. And the register read whole — the same sixty-four organizations — contains no talent corporation of any name: no fellowship vehicle, no talent-import nonprofit, no local enFocus analogue. A town of Walkerton's size does not import fellows; it raises its own and holds them with school money. The test prints that as its result.
Sources: Notre Dame Magazine and Notre Dame News accounts of the founding of enFocus (May 2012; ESTEEM; first fellows August 2012; $3.2 million first-year savings; 2013 Lilly Endowment grant); South Bend Regional Chamber record; enFocus decade record, 2022; the exempt-organizations register read whole for the Walkerton ground (no talent or fellowship corporation).