Our Approach
SRO Tenant leaders visiting the Bay Area Metro Center.
At Brightline, we believe that everyone deserves to live and work in a healthy environment.
Truly sustainable growth must benefit both people and nature. Too often – even with well-meaning policies and projects that benefit the environment – frontline communities bear the environmental cost of new development and are excluded from the economic growth that new industries bring.
It’s time to break this pattern. We can create a new model for economic growth that values the voices of local community members and creates healthy environments and financial opportunity for all.
Our Vision
Brightline’s valued community partners, CYC and CCSROC, as well as technical partner Clarity Movement and environmental government agency staff in the Brightline office.
Empowered Communities, Sustainable Environments
We envision a world in which frontline communities create and prosper from sustainable development.
Our Work
Brightline partners with Clarity Movement to monitor the air quality in San Francisco.
The Brightline team blends public policy advocacy and on-the-ground partnerships to promote sustainability and opportunity in frontline communities.
Our work at the nexus of environmental justice, workforce development, and clean energy has kept power plants - and their pollutants - out of low-income communities, created hundreds of local jobs to benefit underserved communities, and energized a new, diverse group of environmental leaders.
We focus on three interrelated pathways for change:
Policy Development and Advocacy
We work with underserved communities to understand how environmental and workforce policies – or the lack thereof – affect their well-being, and we advocate for policies that benefit both people and nature. Learn more →
On-the-Ground Partnerships to Build Capacity and Foster Leadership
We partner with local leaders to share knowledge, create training programs, and build coalitions that empower frontline communities to gain the data, skills, and access they need to advocate for healthy environments and prosper from sustainable development. Learn more →
Meaningful Connections
Throughout our work, we connect community members with policy-makers, government agency leaders, and industry representatives so community needs shape plans for economic growth and environmental protection. Learn more →