Dr. Bola Tilghman

Personal Background

     Dr. Tilghman loves and enjoys teaching but her passion is community service because she believes in giving back to her community both in the USA and West Africa. She uses her skills and passion to impact and change the lives of others. Because she believes in giving back, she started her own non-profit organization in 2010. Her non-profit organization, Millennium African Project, MAP of its mission is to educate children and college-age students in West Africa by donating books to several K-12 schools and colleges in Lagos, Nigeria. Another mission of her organization is to help bring the schools up to date in technology. She gets this accomplished by donating desktops and laptops to several schools in Lagos. She also donates clothes and toys to less fortunate children and families in orphanages in a rural part of Lagos, Nigeria.

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     Through MAP, she continues to work tirelessly to provide basic needs such as food to several organizations in Nigeria that take care of the less fortunate and orphans, and school furniture such as desks and chairs for the classroom of local schools in Lagos and Abeokuta. She believes when you educate children, the whole community benefits from that education. MAP continues to partner with several organizations in Nigeria to provide human basic needs to help lift families out of poverty and provide economic stability.

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     Here in the USA, she serves as a Civic Leader with Hand-on-Atlanta, where she oversees and led several projects and is on the Board of Directors of JD Winston YMCA in Atlanta, Georgia. She serves on the board of Nicholas House, a non-profit organization that takes care of homeless families by providing shelter, and education for children and parents for a better future. She also serves on GLUED Inc. Board of Directors, a non-profit organization that provides life skill sets for young girls from middle to high school, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, NAACP Executive Board, whose mission is to remove barriers to racial discrimination through democratic processes.

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     In addition to several leadership roles in several non-profit organizations, she volunteers on a regular basis with Hosea Feed the Hungry, Children Restoration’s Network, Atlanta Community Food Bank, Jesus Life Ministry, Decatur Alliance Organization, NAACP Political Action Committee, and Decatur Housing Authority STAR Program. She belongs to other non-profit organizations, where she lends hands to helping those organizations fulfill their community service mission. Her ultimate goal in life is to help educate, eradicate hunger, and empower families economically all over the world.