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Acknowledgements

This endeavor is possible because of a handful of people who have encouraged the process along the way, or dedicated their talents to help. In addition to our grant partners and others who have offered advice and counsel on many aspects of this labor of love, we are particularly grateful to the following people:

• Naomi Poole – for inventing ‘chocolate time travel,’ creating the model for the Whoooshhh!!! children’s book series, and her passion to fix what ails the world

• Cathy Weston – for reading and giving excellent guidance from a teacher’s perspective on the first draft of Stop! Don’t Eat Me

• Dave Parker – for illustrating the first of the book series on spec

• Adam Poole – for his interest and insight into the awareness-raising approach for kids

• Greg Poole – for sage design advice in a competitive market and for both hosting and rescuing this site in an emergency

• Anubha Gupta – who donated her professional time as a qualitative researcher to test Stop! Don’t Eat Me

• Alexander Pascual – for his talented artistic design, who rendered the PeaceDiviners™ logo and designed this website

• Mike Powell – our legal counsel, who put up with endless questions and charged almost nothing for his services

• Mai Young – for her wholehearted enthusiasm and suggestions for PeaceDiviners™, even in its earliest and simplest form

• Tom and Deborah Workman – for the time they took to read and dissect the early proposals, raise red flags, and offer specific suggestions

• Greg Poole (Platypus Creative) – for sage design advice in a competitive market

• Zoë Poole – for her enthusiastic cheers from the side

• Daniel Poole – for making us laugh

• Lisa Lumbao – for being a wonderful supportive friend throughout

• Butch Aguila – for his financial advice and assistance with our business plan

• Alison Young – for her unqualified approval, projections, and ideas for future collaboration

• David Bornstein – for his validation and encouragement of this endeavor

• And of course to the first PeaceDiviners™ partners: Gwen and Peter Bollant, Kim Given, Susan, Mark and Ryan Hreljac, Jean and Noel Livesey, and Safia and James Minney

…As well as a huge number of other people, including the rest of Ms. Poole's family, and many other professionals from the social entrepreneurial network, the worlds of film and television and international development for their encouragement and wise ideas for funding and marketing.