Executive Summary

• A History of Working Together:
  Notre Dame and the Community
• Notre Dame: Michiana’s Largest Employer
• University Spending Supports
  St. Joseph County
• New Income for St. Joseph County
• Campus Provides Local Services
• A Place of Pilgrimage:
  Notre Dame As a Destination
• Focus on Community Development
• Notre Dame Invests in
  Neighborhood Revitalization
• Contributing to Culture in South Bend
• Using the Wealth of Educational
  Resources to Help the Community
• Forging a Future Together

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Notre Dame's Economic Impact
on South Bend

Campus Provides Local Services

Notre Dame used to grow its own crops, raise livestock, and make the bricks for its buildings. In that spirit, the University maintains a standard of self-sufficiency. The University requires very little in city and county services because it provides its own water, energy, security, health, and fire prevention services. It also maintains its own parks, libraries, and recreation facilities on campus.

University departments provide a multitude of services and facilities that are available to the general public, such as investigating injury and non-injury accidents off campus, responding to calls for fire service as part of mutual aid agreements, assisting in the improvement of the Northeast Neighborhood in South Bend, maintaining a county road, and allowing public access to its parks and libraries.

Although most University facilities are exempt from property taxes because of Notre Dame's status as a nonprofit organization, the University does pay taxes on all of its off-campus properties. The University's limited reliance on city and county services—when compared with the taxes it pays and the grant monies it attracts—helps put government balance sheets in the black.

• The University paid $285,000 in property and innkeeper taxes to the city of South Bend and St. Joseph County