Working with a dynamic group of church leaders, educators, entrepreneurs, and others, the Alumni Awards Foundation (AAF) has begun work on an alternative operational model for the education system that embraces distinctive Adventist core values and aims to make world-class education more accessible to Adventist families and more sustainable in an ever-changing economy.

September 1, 2010: AAF staff and Southern Adventist University senior Jason Busch met at a roundtable to discuss future episodes of the Pilot Light Podcast. Plans to release an episode on building community relations is scheduled for early September. Storyboards and interviews are being planned to cover future episodes on AAF's vision for the future and a behind the scenes look at the journey of the AAF staff working for the foundation. Other ideas are also currently being explored. Jason, a broadcast major at SAU, has covered two of AAF's Renaissance Adventist Education summits for the Pilot Light Podcast. These and other past episodes can be heard at pilotlightpodcast.org.

September 12, 2010: AAF will host its second Knowledge Community in St. Joseph, Michigan. The Community consists of 20 distinguished individuals from diverse backgrounds and generations who have agreed to lend their strategic input as an alternative model for Adventist K-12 education is developed. The first AAF Knowledge Community gathering was held June 6-8, in Park City, Utah.

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