MISSION

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We promote sustainability and opportunity in under-served communities in the Bay Area through policy advocacy and partnerships. We protect and empower communities in need by advancing environmental justice, ensuring job creation, and advocating for affordable and sustainable housing.

PROGRAMS

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Our environmental justice, renewable energy, green jobs, and local hiring programs have kept power plants - and their pollutants - out of low-income communities, created hundreds of local jobs to benefit local communities, and led organizations to increase their workforce diversity. And we're just getting started. 

TEAM

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The BRIGHTLINE team is composed of legal experts, policy advocates, communication specialists, community organizers, volunteers, and a board of directors committed to the empowerment of traditionally under-served communities in local neighborhoods, the San Francisco Bay Area, and beyond. 

RECENT NEWS

NEWS
Brightline Fellows Advocate for Equity in SFMTA Green Zones
Brightline Fellows Advocate for Equity in SFMTA Green Zones

Brightline policy fellows advocate for increasing access of low-income communities to Zero Emission Buses

Brightline ED Appointed to the SF Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC)
Brightline ED Appointed to the SF Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC)

The Speaker of the State Assembly appoints our Executive Director Eddie Ahn to BCDC.

Brightline Publishes “Toward Empowerment” Report
Brightline Publishes “Toward Empowerment” Report

Report analyzes how governance structures have empowered or disenfranchised three communities in San Mateo County

"On the Table" Housing Discussion with Brightline
"On the Table" Housing Discussion with Brightline

Affordable housing conversation convened by Brightline and Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Brightline ED Appointed to SF Environment Commission
Brightline ED Appointed to SF Environment Commission

Our Executive Director Eddie Ahn appointed to SF Environment Commission!

Brightline Advocates for Expanded Access to Electric Vehicles
Brightline Advocates for Expanded Access to Electric Vehicles

Brightline pushes for an expanded rebate program that encourages mid and low-income households to own electric vehicles!

Environmental Coalition Supports Energy Efficiency, PACE Programs
Environmental Coalition Supports Energy Efficiency, PACE Programs

Brightline and a coalition of seven key California organizations united today to advocate for the environment, energy efficiency, and sustainable economic growth.

Brightline's New Website Launched on May Day
Brightline's New Website Launched on May Day

Thanks to Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Catchafire, and Jon David Powers, Brightline launches its new website on May Day!

Brightline Advocates for Teacher Housing
Brightline Advocates for Teacher Housing

The escalating housing crisis in the Bay Area threatens workers essential to building American communities and cities: teachers.

Brightline Summit Report and the New Year
Brightline Summit Report and the New Year

To elevate its community partners in San Francisco and beyond, policy nonprofit Brightline Defense presents its December 2016 report from its first-ever policy summit

San Francisco Local Hire Law Heralded as "Wild Success"
San Francisco Local Hire Law Heralded as "Wild Success"

The past five years have borne witness to an unwavering tenacity and dedication of community advocates and other stakeholders that have led to groundbreaking results: local hiring in San Francisco

Brightline Advocates More Jobs for Women; Expansion of Solar Access
Brightline Advocates More Jobs for Women; Expansion of Solar Access

Early on April 11, the sound of swinging hammers rang out from the Bay Area's first all-women green construction training class.

Brightline Announces the Dr. Espanola Jackson Fellowship
Brightline Announces the Dr. Espanola Jackson Fellowship

An environmental justice (EJ) non-profit founded in 2005, Brightline proudly presents the Dr. Espanola Jackson Postgraduate Legal Fellowship to begin in late summer 2016.

Brightline 2015 Year in Review
Brightline 2015 Year in Review

Five years after the passage of San Francisco's landmark Local Hiring Policy for Construction, San Francisco's local hiring has jumped from...