Charitable Connections Inc. Proposes Plan to Provide Local Jobs, Fight Recidivism
Wednesday, January 6th, 2016
Michelle Uchiyama’s pitch to the Albany City Commission Tuesday morning caught commissioners, always leery of groups asking for funding, off guard.
Uchiyama, the founder and president of Atlanta-based nonprofit Charitable Connections Inc., assured commissioners she not only did not come before them to ask for money, she came with a plan that would address a number of the community’s most dire problems: lack of jobs, a dwindling tax base and recidivism.
