Lower Ninth Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development

Lower Ninth Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development’s (CSED) mission and purpose is to stimulate civic engagement and restorative rebuilding, repopulate, sustain natural systems, assist community leadership and preserve resources in New Orleans ’ Lower Ninth Ward neighborhoods. CSED’s goal is re-creation and repopulation of a strong community mindful of its history, resources and vulnerabilities as active, engaged, resilient, prosperous, energy independent and beautiful as possible. The CSED is a project of the Holy Cross Neighborhood Association.