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Brightline Collective helps mission-driven organizations turn bold strategy into measurable impact.
We partner to design smart, actionable strategies and stay shoulder-to-shoulder through implementation.
Our Services
Strategic Planning & Implementation
We partner with leadership teams and boards to clarify priorities, align decisions, and turn strategy into action.
Then we stay.
Our team works alongside yours to support implementation—navigating tradeoffs, adjusting in real time, and strengthening the leadership and systems needed to sustain momentum.
Resource Development & Capital Alignment
Brightline Collective helps organizations strengthen financial sustainability by designing fundraising and capital strategies aligned with mission, capacity, and long-term goals.
We support revenue diversification, navigate public funding and compliance requirements, and identify opportunities to unlock capital.
Community Engagement & Facilitation
We guide organizations in designing and leading engagement processes that move people from ideas to decisions—especially in complex, multi-sector environments where power, priorities, and perspectives don’t always align.
We map stakeholders, facilitate productive convenings, and help coalitions find common ground around shared goals.
Real Estate & Asset-Based Programming
Brightline Collective partners with organizations to design and deliver complex capital and real estate initiatives—from early planning through implementation, and grounded in experience.
We support project design, oversee execution, coordinate stakeholders, and track outcomes—navigating public funding, layered financing, regulatory requirements, and long timelines.
Our Team
Mayra Guevara Bontemps
Mayra Guevara Bontemps is a community centered real estate, nonprofit and compliance management executive with over 25 years of experience in Federally funded program design, development, financing, and management.
Principal
Nicole Cassier, CFRE
Nicole is mission-driven leader specializing in nonprofit strategy and fund development with a track record of transforming organizations through strategic fundraising, impactful communications, and meaningful community engagement.
Principal
Kelly Opot
Principal
Kelly is a convener, facilitator, leader, and strategist committed to equity, creativity, ingenuity, and social justice to create highly functioning public systems and human services organizations.