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Research and Evaluation: assessing community needs and evaluating program and organizational processes and impacts through literature review, interviews, focus groups, surveys, and other tools

Organizational Development and Planning: providing strategic planning, organizational assessment, development of theories of change and logic modeling, facilitation, curriculum development and training

Research and Evaluation:

	Designed and managed a year-long community assessment, including demographic research, literature review, leadership polls, a telephone survey, and focus groups with people who are blind and low vision.

	Created and carried out ongoing program evaluation with community organizations serving recent immigrants and their families, using form and survey design, focus groups, interviews, and case studies.

	Provided evaluation management consultation to a community foundation, as well as evaluation capacity building, logic modeling, and support with data collection and reporting for its grantees.

	Designed and implemented a formative evaluation project focused on process and outcomes evaluation, using literature review, data collection system design, family interviews, and case file review, for an organization serving SED youth.

Complete client lists and additional project descriptions available by request.

Organizational Development and Training:

	Completed multi-year strategic planning processes from start to finish with community health, environmental, and immigrant rights organizations and foundations.

	Developed research-based theories of change and logic models to inform organizational and program planning and evaluation.

	Facilitated board development processes, retreat planning, event coordination, and ongoing meetings for community-based organizations and a local community foundation.

	Coordinated a pilot project of six organizations convened to incorporate issues of race and racism into their anti-homophobia curricula for youth in Bay Area public schools.

	Managed a collaborative of eight organizations dedicated to lead poisoning prevention in low-income communities of color in San Francisco.

Principal	Rachel Lanzerotti Consulting, SF CA. (2002 - present)

Research Associate / Consultant	LaFrance Associates, LLC, SF CA. (2001 - 2003)

Project Coordinator	Homophobia and Racism Prevention in Schools (HARPS) Project, Intergroup Clearinghouse, SF CA. (2002)

Associate Director	Healthy Children Organizing Project, SF CA. (2000 - 2001)

Trustee	Agape Foundation Fund for Nonviolent Social Change, SF CA. (2000 - present)

Advocate	Women’s Institute for Leadership Development (WILD) for Human Rights, SF CA. (1999 - 2000, Intern)

Instructor	Harvey Milk Institute (1998 - 2002) & SF University HS, SF CA. (2003)

Counselor	Community United Against Violence, SF CA. (1998 - 1999, Intern)

Heath Educator	Women’s Needs Center, Haight-Ashbury Free Clinics, SF CA. (1996 - 1997)

Coordinator	Media Alliance, SF CA. (1995 - 1996)

Organizer	Graduate Employees Organization, AFT/MFT, Ann Arbor, MI. (1992 - 1994)

Sample evaluation reports available upon request.

“Evaluation for Fundraising," Shelterforce: The Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Building. July/August 2005.

“Measuring Change to Make Change: The Fundraising Case for Program Evaluation,” Grassroots Fundraising Journal, May/June 2004.

“Racism in Queer Communities: What Can White People Do? The Practical Challenge of Community Education and Action.” Race, Gender & Class, Vol.9 No.1, 2002. (55-71).

Research Assistant, Hatred in the Hallways: Violence and Discrimination Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Students in U.S. Schools, Human Rights Watch, May 2001.

“Working for Women’s Human Rights,” Sweatshop Watch, Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring 2000.

Presenter, Designing Evaluation Tools, East Bay Environmental Educators Network (EBEEN), September 11, 2007

Panelist, Program Evaluation for Health Services. The Foundation Center. May 26, 2005

Moderator, Making and Measuring a Difference: Demonstrating Impact to Your Donors, Fundraising Day 2004

Panelist, Evaluating Evaluation, Development Executives Roundtable, July 9, 2004

Presenter, Measuring Change to Make Change, The Foundation Center, August 24, 2004

Master of Social Work, Social Development. San Francisco State University,
May 2000.

Focus on theories of social change, organizational development and community organizing.

Bachelor of Arts, Human Biology and Feminist Studies. Stanford University, 1991.

Focus on gender, sexuality, and health.

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