SEED emerged as a DEEPEN Challenge Fund (DCF) grantee. The Fund was to support unconventional and innovative solutions to scale up ongoing and emerging pilots and highlight opportunities that might not have been noticed if not supported externally. SEED had created an innovative tool, SQAT (SEED Quality Assessment Tool), that required funding for "Desirability" testing with low-fee private schools through the SEED School Transformation Program.

SEED faced great vulnerability when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. School closures and the need for aid for the school community (children, parents, staff and owners/leaders) led to SEED creating the intervention - SEED C.A.R.E.S. (COVID-19 Advocacy, Relief, Empowerment & Support) in April 2020. The intervention packs (food, personal care & hygiene packs, workbooks, radios and cash) reached 100 Student Families, 60 School Leaders and 81 Teachers. The whole experience between 2020/21 brought to fore the importance of technology and the need to rethink our strategy. In 2021, SEED supported the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF) in the N5 billion Post COVID-19 Recovery Fund and also supported the Office of Education Quality Assurance (OEQA) with trainings on safe re-opening of Lagos State schools and series of trainings for school owners/leaders on crisis response.

Taking all the learning from over the years, SEED was fully registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission on 4 April 2022 as SEED Care & Support Foundation, a non-profit in Nigeria with registration number 177564. With SEED's new non-profit status, it commenced work with building trust with the school associations. SEED transitioned into a convening role, becoming the Secretariat for the Coalition of Low-Fee Private School Associations in Lagos State. On 5th November 2024, SEED Care and Support Foundation formally launched as a non-profit that supports the affordable non-state education sector to deliver access to quality education for all children. SEED evolved from just programme delivery to grassroots movement building and policy engagement. SEED becomes Implementing Partner for the FCDO-PLANE South-West Education Programme.

NATIONAL POLICY ENGAGEMENT
SEED is a member of the Committee that drafts the National Policy on Non-State Schools in Nigeria (NPNSN) and is present at its official launch in Abuja on 16th July 2025. Further engagement with federal stakeholders on implementation pathways, including Education Public‑Private Partnerships (E-PPP) and Accelerated Teacher Professionalisation Pathways (ATPP). In recognition of its impact,

LAGOS, OGUN & OYO POLICY DOMESTICATION
SEED is appointed as the Civil Society Organisation representative on the Lagos State Policy on Non‑State Schools Drafting Committee. SEED actively mobilises stakeholders for public consultation, resulting in 19 memoranda submissions, including 11 coordinated submissions led by SEED. SEED is also appointed to the Lagos State Safe Schools Steering Committee as Non-State representative. SEED begins to work on stewarding shared learning assets from all its work in Lagos State. As implementating partners to FCDO-PLANE on their South-West Education Programme, policy domestication support is provided to Ogun & Oyo states with learning shared with Ekiti, Ondo and Osun States. Strategy for the launch of a systems‑learning initiative positioning Lagos as a learning engine for national and global education reform is developed.