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Madonna and her family are scheduled to travel to Malawi next week to visit several important projects for orphans and vulnerable children that she and Raising Malawi have been working on since 2006.

She is expected to visit the Millennium Village which she supports along  with Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, one of the world's leading economists. “I look forward to seeing the amazing progress being made in that community as well as several other projects that are currently underway including the creation of a Girl’s Academy.  I'm hugely excited to be joining Dr. Sachs and Hans Vestberg, the CEO of Ericsson, to launch a new campaign for worldwide access to education using mobile technology,” stated Madonna.   A formal  announcement regarding the campaign will be made on Tuesday in Malawi.

For further information on Raising Malawi, go to www.raisingmalawi.org

Enter The Sticky & Sweet Tour contest presented by Madonna.com and SPIN magazine to win the ultimate Sticky & Sweet prize package!

Two lucky Madonna fans will be selected to win the grand prize that includes:

- Autographed copy of the Sticky & Sweet concert DVD
- Official DVD T-shirt
- The Sticky & Sweet Tour photo book
- Sticky & Sweet tour program
- One-year free subscription to SPIN Magazine

There will also be three runners-up, so don’t miss out on a great chance to win an incredible prize package. Contest ends April 20th!

Make sure to pick a copy of this week’s Us Magazine (on newstands Wednesday) as Madonna talks exclusively to Ian Drew about the 'Material Girl' clothing that she and her daughter Lola are collaborating on for Fall.

The fashion designs for juniors will be available exclusively at Macys and macys.com beginning in late July for back-to-school.

As announced a few days ago, we have just launched the ‘Madonna Picture Project’, which is devoted to Madonna memorabilia.

Today, we are happy to announce that an official and devoted Flickr gallery is now open. Visit it now to view the first submitted pictures!

Also, feel free to join the project today by e-mailing us your pictures! For more info, just click here.

Madonna's ‘Sticky & Sweet’ Tour will be released on CD/DVD and Blu Ray worldwide over the next 2 weeks.

In the meantime, make sure to visit Yahoo now and watch the ‘Ray of Light’ performance, which is taken straight from the DVD!

Madonna Fans, we need your help developing a new section of Madonna.com, which will be devoted to all of the Madonna items you’ve been collecting through the years!

Here are the items we are looking for right now:

- Concert posters, show flyers and tour passes from any era
- Ticket stubs from any concert or tour
- Vintage t-shirts

If you have any of those, please e-mail us a picture of it at madonnaphotos@gmail.com. Please make sure to review the following guidelines before hitting the “send” button:

- Each picture must be JPG format and 2MB (2,000KB) maximum
- 5 pictures per category please.
- Describe each item, tell us where you got it and why you consider it a special/important one
- Make sure to include your full info (including your name, mailing address and phone number)
- Also, please use “My Madonna Items” as your e-mail’s subject line

As a way to thank you for your precious help, we will pick one e-mail address on a random basis each month. The picked address will be mailed a signed Madonna surprise! Also, we will post photos along with their owner’s name for everyone to know about their contribution to the project.

Are you ready to help us building an amazing Madonna database and to maybe add a very special item to your collection? Then go ahead and e-mail us your pictures now!

March 26 update: We are happy to announce that an official and devoted Flickr gallery is now open. Visit it now to view the first submitted pictures!

Madonna, along with the Iconix Brand Group, recently created a brand new company, called MG ICON. The newly formed joint venture is to work on various fashion related projects in the future, the first of them being an amazing eyewear collection co-developed by Madonna and Dolce & Gabbana!

Stefano Gabbana recently told Women's Wear Daily, "We're so excited. This further strengthens our relationship with Madonna, and it was a very constructive experience for us." Dolce added, "We thought, why not do something together and unite two very strong and high-profile names."

The MDG collection will hit Dolce & Gabbana stores during the month of May, but will also be available from the Sunglass Hut chain and select opticians.

Get ready for a sunny summer and a beautiful ad campaign photographed by Steven Klein!

Madonna’s episode of ‘The Marriage Ref’ will air on NBC this coming Thursday, at 10/9C.

Other guests include Ricky Gervais and Larry David.

Ready for a good laugh? Make sure to watch!

For more info about ‘The Marriage Ref’, please visit http://www.nbc.com/the-marriage-ref/

Madonna fans, so many of you entered our latest contest for a chance to win a signed copy of Guy Oseary’s “Madonna: Sticky + Sweet” book... Going through all of the collected entries took us a while, but the great news is that we’ve found our winners!

To describe your favourite tour photo in just one sentence was not an easy task, but you all found amazing ways to do it. Thank you for entering and Congratulations to the winners!

Check back soon for another contest :-)

Pietro.R (Italy)
Patricia.L (Finland)
Mario.V (italy)
Ilya.A.S (Russia)
Asimina.M (Greece)
Monica.B.R (Spain)
Christopher.H (USA)
Mariana.A (Argentina)
Andru.W (USA)
Robert.S (Germany)

While Madonna’s ‘Sticky & Sweet’ Tour will hit worldwide stores on DVD, CD and Blu Ray March 30th, please note that it will be released just one week later in the US, on April 6th.

To coincide with this new release date, the VH1 broadcast of the show has been pushed to April 2nd. A chance for US fans to watch the show on TV four days before its domestic release.

Make sure to pre-order your copy of it from Amazon!

Madonna fans, we are happy to announce the launch of Madonna’s official app for Iphone and Android!

The app features music, videos, news and photos but also all of the tools you need to comment Madonna’s albums and tours while interacting with other Madonna fans around the world.

Just click here to download it for free and to have your Madonna branded app installed to your phone in the blink of an eye!

The 25th Annual International Dance Music Awards will take place on March 25th, as part of the Winter Music Conference.

This year, Madonna is nominated in 2 different categories: Best Pop Dance Track (‘Celebration’) and Best Solo Artist.

Votes are now open, so make sure to visit the devoted page before February 26th! Please note that you can only vote once. Multiple submissions will be disqualified.

Good luck Madonna!

January 31, 2010 – New York, NY – Vita Coco, the nation’s best-selling coconut water and one of the fastest-growing beverage brands in the U.S., today announced a group of several high profile new investors into the five-year old, New York-based beverage company. With a 60% share of the coconut water market and annual revenues more than doubling in 2009 from the previous year, Vita Coco is headed to record sales in 2010 and beyond. It was officially confirmed today by Vita Coco CEO and co-founder Michael Kirban that entertainment manager Guy Oseary and his client Madonna invested in Vita Coco. Oseary also brought on board Matthew McConaughey, Demi Moore and Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis as additional Vita Coco investors.

“This group of investors chose to invest because they’ve all been brand loyalists, drink Vita Coco regularly and believe in the growth potential of the Vita Coco brand,” stated Kirban.

Fresh coconut water, extracted from young green coconuts (not brown ones) has grown increasingly popular as both a lifestyle beverage and a natural sports drink. “Each of these investors not only validates the Vita Coco brand, but the category of natural-functional beverages as well,” added Kirban.

Vita Coco is currently sold at over 14,000 retailers nationwide, including Whole Foods Market, Safeway, Giant Eagle, Ralph’s, Shaw’s, Stop&Shop/Giant, HEB, Hannaford Supermarkets, ACME and Shop Rite, as well as on Amazon.com.

Early next month, Vita Coco will be available for sale in over 1,300 GNC stores nationwide. “GNC’s motto is ‘Live Well,’ and as the leading vitamin, supplement and sports nutrition chain, I can’t think of a finer retail partner as the Vita Coco brand grows nationally,” notes Kirban. “GNC’s product education programs will ensure that new consumers learn about the healthful benefits of Vita Coco.”

About Vita Coco

Vita Coco—all-natural, 100% pure coconut water—has for many consumers become the best alternative to sports drinks and enhanced bottled waters. One reason: an 11.2-ounce/330-ml serving size of Vita Coco contains almost 700 mg of potassium, approximately 15 times more than the average sports drink in a similar serving size.

Vita Coco was founded by longtime friends Michael Kirban and Ira Liran in 2004 and is based in New York City. The Vita Coco brand is a leader in the natural-functional beverage category and is the #1-selling coconut water in the U.S. with over 60% market share (source: Merrill Lynch/Bank of America).

Of all the coconut water brands presently sold in the U.S. market, Vita Coco is the only brand with its own production facility, allowing Vita Coco to directly manage quality control, new flavor development and special packaging.

Vita Coco is currently sold at over 14,000 retailers nationwide, including Whole Foods Market, Safeway, Giant Eagle, Ralph’s, Shaw’s, Stop&Shop/Giant, HEB, Hannaford Supermarkets, ACME and Shop Rite, as well as on Amazon.com.

Visit: www.vitacoco.com

Madonna’s ‘Sticky & Sweet Tour’ is to be broadcasted on VH1 April 2nd, as part of the channel’s "Friday Night Alright" series.

Don’t miss it!

The ‘Hope For Haiti Now’ performances (including Madonna’s ‘Like A Prayer’) are now available as a 20 tracks album from most iTunes stores.

Just click here to download your copy of it.