The University of Notre Dame Alumni Association recently unveiled an online engagement center with social-networking capabilities fit to engage — and elicit gifts from — even the feistiest of the Fighting Irish alums.

By Abny Santicola

The alumni support that rebuilt the university in the late 1800s also laid the groundwork for what has become a worldwide network of Notre Dame grads. Eighteen years after the founding of the alumni association in 1868, the Chicago alumni formed the first Notre Dame alumni club. Today, there are more than 275 local Notre Dame alumni clubs around the world, and their contributions to Notre Dame and its community are invaluable.