Bill Walczak is a community activist in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
13 Facts About Bill Walczak
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Bill Walczak was a candidate for mayor of Boston in 2013.
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Bill Walczak graduated in history from the University of Massachusetts Boston in 1979; he is a member of the board of the University of Massachusetts Boston Alumni and Friends.
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Bill Walczak founded and ran the nonprofit Codman Square Health Center in Dorchester for more than thirty years.
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Bill Walczak co-founded in 1979 the center, which provides over 22,000 area residents with primary medical care, urgent care, radiology, dentistry, and eye care services.
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Bill Walczak established the health center in the basement of an old library and eventually took over the entire building.
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In 2000, Bill Walczak co-founded the Codman Academy Charter Public School and remains its president.
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Bill Walczak had proposed a three-year plan which required additional financial investment from Steward.
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Bill Walczak was formerly vice president of community relations at Shawmut Design and Construction.
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Bill Walczak is the founding president of the Massachusetts Nonprofit Network.
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Bill Walczak is the chairman of STRIVE, a job training program located in Dorchester; and is a member of the Executive Advisory Council for WBUR Radio.
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Bill Walczak was co-founder of Codman Academy Charter Public School and is a Senior Fellow at the Boston University Institute for Nonprofit Management and Leadership, a Barr Foundation Fellow, a board member of the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education, advisory board of the Boston Landmarks Orchestra, and the advisory council of the Haiti Fund at the Boston Foundation, among others.
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Bill Walczak announced his candidacy on April 7,2013, at which time he was the seventh person to announce a bid for Boston mayor.