<h1>Legal compliance risks for corporate foundation partnerships with first ladies: scholarships, healthcare, procurement, IP, transparency obligations</h1> A corporate philanthropic foundation hosted a summit with multiple national first ladies to announce programmatic partnerships, scholarship commitments for local physicians, education sponsorships for schoolgirls, awards and media campaigns, and publication and audiovisual outputs. The foundation emphasized long-term collaborations with a national first lady and other regional dignitaries and asserted a strict non-political stance. Legal considerations include enforceability of scholarship and sponsorship commitments, compliance with local education and healthcare regulations, public-funding or procurement rules where governments are involved, intellectual property and consent for published materials, and transparency/anti-corruption obligations in public-private partnerships.