Agility, LLC is a woman-owned business founded in 2013 to help non-profits and small businesses with fund development strategy, grant writing, and sponsorship management for events. The Agility team has the skills and tools in place to turn a client’s challenges into collaborative successes — solutions are creative, constructive, cost and time effective, and fully customized to your organization’s needs.
Linda Danforth, Principal
Over the past few decades, Linda has founded and advised many private business ventures and non-profits. She also has worked for all levels of government, most recently for 16 years as District Director for Congressman Adam Smith.
Linda’s specialties include government procurement, community and government relations, issues management, external communications, grant writing, nonprofit development, sponsorship management, marketing and production of special events.
The challenge of global poverty elimination is a personal interest. Linda travels to developing countries to gain a deeper understanding about the fight against poverty around the world through microenterprise programs that offer sustainable solutions. Whenever possible, she participates in the training of young women interested in starting their own businesses.
A couple of other personal interests include being a contributing member of the ACLU and United Plant Savers, and general consciousness and effort toward equality for all human beings and care for our earth.
As a volunteer, Linda founded a non-profit art center, Tacoma Art Place and she is a member of Tacoma Sunset Rotary, a member (past executive board) of the World Affairs Council of Tacoma, and a member of Global Ties Arizona (a World Affairs Council). Linda received the Emerging Leadership Award from Tacoma City Club in 2002, an AMOCAT award for Individual Artist from the city of Tacoma in 2008, the Jim Smith Award for Support of the Arts from Pierce County in 2009 and was a Rising Star recipient for Women of Influence 2011 from the Business Examiner. She splits her time between Tacoma, WA, Phoenix, AZ, and her favorite EU country, Portugal.
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