The recipient entity's physical address:
           The Whitney Institute
5099 Highway 18
Edgard, LA
70049

The recipient entity's mailing address (if different):
           The Whitney Institute
5099 Highway 18
Edgard, LA
70049

Type of Entity (for instance, a nonprofit corporation):  Non-Profit Corporation

If the entity is a corporation, list the names of the incorporators:
          John J. Cummings, III was the original incorporator of the project, then known as Whitney Heritage Plantation Corporation. It was donated in its entirety to a newly created 501C3 in December 2019. The physical plant is now owned by Whitney Plantation Museum, a 501C3 which works in tandem with The Whitney Institute, a separate 501C3, that leases the physical plant from The Whitney Plantation Museum entity for the operations of the tours and Visitors' Center.

The last four digits of the entity's taxpayer ID number:  7039

What is the dollar amount of the request?  $200,000

What type of request is this?  General Appropriation

Is this entity in good standing with the Secretary of State?  Yes

Provide the name of each member of the recipient entity's governing board and officers:
           Executive Director
Ashley Rogers, PhD
5099 Highway 18
Edgard, LA 70049
The Executive Director will be responsible for the functions to be funded by the requested funds. Dr. Rogers is the Founding Executive Director and has been at the helm of the project since 2014.

DONNA S. CUMMINGS
Board Chair, Director
416 GRAVIER STREET
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70130

MICHELLE BRIERRE
Director
914 N. ROMAN STREET
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70116

KIRK BROWN
Director
2777 NIMITZ BLVD.
SAN DIEGO, CA 92106

CAROLYN JEFFERSON
Secretary, Director
5760 NORLAND AVENUE
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70131

R. PATRICK VANCE
Treasurer, Director
201 ST. CHARLES AVENUE
SUITE 5100
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70170

CIRECIE WEST-OLATUNJI
Vice-Chair, Director
1 DREXEL DRIVE
#324
NEW ORLEANS, LA 70125

CHERI AUSBERRY
Director
5144 RIVERBEND BLVD
BATON ROUGE, LA 70820

HAYWOOD HALL, MD
Director
1209 SOUTH 10TH STREET
SUITE A 575
MACALLEN, TX 78501

KATHERINE BUSH FELTON
Director
c/o Wiley College
711 Wiley Avenue
Marshall, TX
57670

BARBARA HEATH
Director
1621 Cumberland Avenue
Strong Hall. Room 502A
Knoxville, TN 37996

DAMON AUSTIN
Director
Dematha High School
4313 Madison Street
Hyattsville, MD. 20781

MICHELLE CUMMINGS
Director
36 West 85th Street
Apt 3
New York, NY 10019

E. BRANDON GARRETT
Director
Empire Consulting Group
40 W. 57th Street
Suite 1815
New York, NY 10019

Provide a summary of the project or program:
           The Whitney Institute operates the museum located at 5099 Highway 18 in Edgard, Louisiana. With over 13 original structures dating from the 1790s to 1865, as well as a new visitors'center, the funding required to maintain the structures in a condition in which they can be safely viewed by our patrons is substantial every year. The tour is an outdoor one in large part, in which visitors are able to experience the grounds of a Louisiana sugar plantation as it existed in the mid-1800s. As the sugar economy was the earliest source of wealth in the state, the historical experience is invaluable for our schoolchildren visitors as well as adults.

We are currently seeking funding to upgrade the outdoor pathways that must be traversed by each visitor in order that they can experience the life of the Habitation Haydel community as it existed. The weather continually degrades the current surfaces and the paths must be redone to provide safe walking and wheelchair passage. We are also hoping to have funding to acquire at lease two mobility scooters of the type recently purchased by the State for parks, to give visitors better access to this history. (The scooters cost approximately $ 6,000 each)

We will need at least the amount requested to complete the first phase of this upgrade to our ability to safely accomodate visitors of all ages and abilities.

What is the budget relative to the project for which funding is requested?:
          Salaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . $0
          Professional Services. . . $38,000
          Contracts . . . . . . . . . . . $0
          Acquisitions . . . . . . . . . $12,000
          Major Repairs . . . . . . . $150,000
          Operating Services. . . . $0
          Other Charges. . . . . . . $0

Does your organization have any outstanding audit issues or findings?  No

If 'Yes' is your organization working with the appropriate governmental agencies to resolve those issues or findings?
          

What is the entity's public purpose, sought to be achieved through the use of state monies?
          THE WHITNEY INSTITUTE is dedicated to preserving the history of slavery in Louisiana, and to educating the public about the period of Louisiana history from 1719 through 1865, with additional materials on the period following the Emancipation Proclamation. This is accomplished by providing tours of the property formerly known as the Habitation Haydel, which includes more than 20 original structures built in or around the late 1700s. The buildings include a main house and a French barn built before 1790.

What are the goals and objectives for achieving such purpose?
          Whitney's goal in achieving such purpose is to allow the Louisiana (and indeed the American and international) public to understand the accurate history of this period with an eye to helping all understand the challenges of our own time.

What is the proposed length of time estimated by the entity to accomplish the purpose?
           The Whitney expects to provide this educational material indefinitely.

If any elected or appointed state official or an immediate family member of such an official is an officer, director, trustee, or employee of the recipient entity who receives compensation or holds any ownership interest therein:
     (a) If an elected or appointed state official, the name and address of the official and the office held by such person:
                 none
    
     (b) If an immediate family member of an elected or appointed state official, the name and address of such person; the name, address, and office of the official to whom the person is related; and the nature of the relationship:
                 none

     (c) The percentage of the official's or immediate family member's ownership interest in the recipient entity, if any:
                

     (d) The position, if any, held by the official or immediate family member in the recipient entity:
                 

If the recipient entity has a contract with any elected or appointed state official or an immediate family member of such an official or with the state or any political subdivision of the state:
(a) If the contract is with an elected or appointed state official, provide the name and address of the official and the office held by such person: 
               none

(b) If the contract is with an immediate family member of an elected or appointed state official:
          Provide the name and address of such person:
               none

          Provide the name, address, and office of the official to whom the person is related:
                none

          What is the nature of the relationship? 

(c) If the contract is with the state or a political subdivision of the state, provide the name and address of the state entity or political subdivision of the state:
                 none

(d) The nature of the contract, including a description of the goods or services provided or to be provided pursuant to the contract:
               none


Contact Information
name:  Donna Cummings, Attorney at Law 
                                       address:  416 Gravier Street
New Orleans, LA 70130
                                       phone:  504-606-8820
                                       fax:  504-522-8423
                                       e-mail:  donnacummings3@gmail.com
                                       relationship to entity:  Board Chair