Bill Walczak is most associated with the Codman Square Health Center, a multi service center which he co-founded in the 1970s and has been its CEO since 1980. The Health Center is a major provider of medical and other clinical services and of community services including job training, civic health, education, youth and other programs. The Health Center serves over 20,000 individuals, has over 130,000 annual visits, with 270 employees and a budget of $15 million.
Mr. Walczak is also founding president of Codman Academy Charter School, a high school located on the health center campus. He is a co-founder and co-CEO of DotWell, a partnership with the Dorchester House Multi-Service Center. Overall, the DotWell enterprise encompasses two health centers serving nearly 45,000 individuals, and includes a school, after school programs, adult education, after school activities, a community technology center, public health programs, civic engagement programs, recreation center including a pool and gym, and many other services. This effort is considered a national and even international model of an NGO collaboration which uses the medical system as a platform for community regeneration. In this capacity, Mr. Walczak also works on international programs in South Africa, Northern Ireland and Vietnam.
Bill is the past president of the Codman Square Neighborhood Council and Columbia Savin Hill Civic Association (both in Dorchester). He is past President of Boston HealthNet, a network of 15 community health centers with Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine. He is an overseer of Boston Medical Center, is on the boards of STRIVE and the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education, and is on the steering committee of the Nonprofit Strategy Committee, which is seeking to establish a state-wide nonprofit association for Massachusetts. He serves on Advisory Boards of the Civil Rights Project of Harvard University and Boston Landmarks Orchestra. He served on the Boston Park Commission, on the Mayor's Welfare Reform Commission, and was a board member of Boston 2000, the City's effort to celebrate the start of the new millennium.
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