POLITICIANS AND ELECTED OFFICIALS APPLAUD ROY JAY & PROJECT CLEAN SLATE

Not many people would cash in nearly all of their retirement to help people that they never really met. That’s what African American Chamber of Commerce President, Roy Jay did in 2005 as he launched Project Clean Slate. What is now an award winning program set out on a path to help a few hundred people reclaim their drivers license and expunging minor criminal convictions. These and other barriers were in the way of people moving forward and getting a second chance in life. Since inception, PCS has assisted over 8000 people in more ways than they can imagine. One...

ROY JAY & FRIENDS PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIP TO HOMELESS, NOW A NURSE!

To hear her story, you would begin to appreciate the efforts of self preservation. A few years ago, Melonie Powell as a victim of domestic abuse at 18 years old with four toddlers. She escaped her environment late one night with a train ticket to Portland Oregon to get reunited with her mother. Thinking that she was leaving her past behind her, Powell became entangled in drugs, crimes and losing her children to DHS. Living on the streets of Portland, she slept at night under a major bridge and would wake up each morning looking at a billboard of a...

ROY JAY NOT RUNNING FOR MAYOR OF PORTLAND

Businessman Roy Jay will not be a candidate for Mayor of Portland simply because he lives 16 blocks outside the city limits of...

Tom Potter Bows Out Of Mayoral Race

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Roy Jay Bows Out Of Mayoral Race

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Will Roy Make a Run for Mayor?

Will Roy Make a Run for Mayor?By Sarah Blount – The Portland Observer – July 4, 2007 Business leader says it’s all talk for now Businessman and civic leader Roy Jay faces a question that will pop up increasingly as we approach 2008: will he run for mayor? Jay, a tireless leader who has helped shaped Portland business while significantly raising the profile of minority businesses, has been asked to run for City Council twice before but declined. He says he is flattered to be considered in the 2008 mayoral race, especially since it wasn’t even his idea. “I’m not...

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