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 Notre Dame Alumni Club of Los Angeles, for example — awarded the Outstanding Club Award by the Notre Dame Alumni Board’s Clubs Committee earlier this year — actively participated in community-service projects, provided scholarships to 72 Notre Dame students last year and raised $500,000, which it gifted to the university to endow the Cross-Cultural Leadership Intern Program in Los Angeles.