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Name: Elliot Pobjoy
Company: War Child Canada
Title: Chief strategy officer and general counsel
Career highlight: Any time I've been overseas on the
front lines of our work at War Child is a highlight. Seeing
the power and intelligence and capacity of our local
frontline teams on the ground always brings it back
home and makes my work worth it.
Career lowlight: Like the rest of the charitable sector,
we saw a temporary drop-off in support at the start of
the pandemic, so we had real fears for the future. We
had to cancel our galas and events, and suddenly our
prospects for funding were looking scarce. However,
we got rid of our office, sold our office supplies and
started to tell our COVID-19 story to supporters, and our
teams overseas persevered. What began as a lowlight
turned into a highlight.
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