Happening NOW (2022)

Give Directly to Organizations Serving Youth in Tacoma: 
100% of the Donations Given Go to the Organizations You Support:

Donations Pages:
Buy Needed Items @
Their Amazon Store
or give directly to their General Fund or 
​Support Other Ways

Donations Pages:
​Meals or
​General Fund
or Buy their Coffee

(Tacoma Community House)

Donation Page

Thank you - your gifts to youth help considerably more than you know. In this time we live in the instability and dangers they face can be mitigated if the organizations serving their needs are truly supported.  

Below, See Our Origins, Who Has Contributed to This Stellar Community Work & More

​Give in Person at
Tacoma Donation Stations:

1. Donate Quality Clothing, Food,
School Supplies & Family Games:
* Marlene's Market & Deli 
So. Tacoma:
2951 S 38th St, Tacoma, WA 98409

* Amy's Casual Comfort 
6th Ave:
3019 6th Ave suite A, Tacoma, WA 98406
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* Happy Belly 
Downtown:
1122 Market St, Tacoma, WA 98402

Youth Need Support

Those Serving Youth Directly Need  Support to Provide What Youth Really Need: 
Give How YOU Want to:

Thank You!

​Your Help Is MORE Valuable than you already know.

Youth do not choose to live in the streets unless they come from places worse than most of us are able to imagine - this is the way many youth end up without a home. They face incomparable dangers every day, vulnerable as they are to the predatory nature of the streets. Reality for Youth is vulnerability, constant stress and imminent danger day in and day out. With far more young people on our streets than are known, youth need support in a variety of ways. Give directly to the people helping them above.
Your support for Youth is more valuable than you already know.
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Safe, enjoyable and fun, we created the Stars 4 Peace to address important need in an array of creative ways

We host and participate in events all around Tacoma, in all Seasons. 

If you would like to be part of this project, or collaborate with us, please reach out to us via this contact form. We'll send you a confirmation email - reply with your interest in how you would like to participate and we'll get back to you.

Thank you!

Also, Please Consider Helping Stars 4 Peace

PayPal.me/Stars4Peace

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Financial Support Allows Us to Raise More Supplies for Youth & Reach More People to Support Youth in Need. Our Work is Not Without Cost: Your Help is a Great Blessing. Thank you much!

Collaborators & "StarSeed"
​ Supporters

Ongoing Collaborations:
H.O.P.E. Advocacy Foundation
(since 2015) Now focusing on Youth 



Current & Previous Partners:
Active in Tacoma Since 2012

W.W. Seymour Conservatoryat Wright Park

2021/22 Install at The Bostwick Cafe,
in collaboration w/ Tacoma Light Trail

Earthbound (Procession of the Species)

Tacoma Pride

Hilltop Artists

Eastside Green Thumbs

Tacoma Santa Parade (Since 2015)

Tacoma's Downtown Block Party

LeMay Family Foundation

Tacoma Public Library

Tacoma Frame Makers

Terracrux Games

Amy's Casual Comfort

ReStyle Clothing Company

Marlene's Market & Deli

Urban XChange (UXC)

Gateway to India

Dunagan Irish Pub & Brewery

​E9 Brewing
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Tacoma Brewing

The Copper Door

Bluebeard Coffee

Happy Belly

Sanford & Sons

Homage Tattoo

Brass Monkey

Soap & Clay

Puget Sound Family Health

"Grand" Origins of this Stellar Work

Because Some Things are Bigger Than Any 1 of Us

Vicci Martinez International Day of Peace Weekend Sept 22, 2012 @ The Historic Pantages Theater

 In 2012 we forged a 3-way collaboration with Olympia's Procession Luminary team and Tacoma's Fall Free For All to welcome Vicci Martinez back for her homecoming birthday show at Broadway Center's Pantages Theater after her national tour from performing on The Voice. Vicci was born on the International Day of Peace, so when we surprised her with an unforgettable assembly of illuminated sculpture (video) stars became associated with peace in Tacoma communities.

Stars installed at Tacoma's Historic Grand Cinema Tacoma Film Festival, 2012

After such a cataclysmic Beginning, we decided the most stellar thing we could do was create a public project to gain important support for people in need in our city's various neighborhoods and local communities.

We have worked with many organizations helping women in transition, disadvantaged students, survivors of trauma due to abuse, returning citizens, youth w/ no shelter & more.

Your support helps more than you know.

Where are Stars, also there are smiles

Annually since 2012, Stars 4 Peace have created or collaborated in events all over Tacoma, every year, working with a long list of organizations, businesses, arts groups & like-minded people. See above: Collaborators & StarSeed Supporters. 

You will see that everywhere the Stars go, smiles also follow. It is our great joy to bring to our city a stellar expression of unity via such caring means.

Concerted Discovery

This Season youth experiencing homelessness are our focus.

Do you know about youth in need personally, or who is helping youth in need in and around Tacoma? Please connect us! We are working to gather support for trusted, well known and reputable organizations that help youth in need directly in Tacoma's communities.

Just Hear What is Real
May, 2022

Return & Listen: Sign Up & We'll Tell You When

This project is now in post-production.

Sound Comes Soon...

At the Heart of Sound

2019 Music & Heart in Wright Park digital flyer

Music & Heart in Wright Park
2019 we began a cycle of awareness fostering solutions to youth homelessness in Tacoma. We continue that work, creating well-informed content through the people serving youth at the ground level with the critical organizations that are in touch with youth.

Working with Radio Tacoma and other media  in multiple formats, our message will reach many people around Tacoma and the South Sound, fostering support and goodwill among those desiring to better youth in need.

Thank you for helping us how you are able.

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The Stars 4 Peace is a flexible platform intended to bring support direct-to-need.

In years past we have addressed serious issues like survival of trauma due to abuse, homelessness and more.

We have successfully provided clothes to youth in disadvantaged circumstances, women in transition, people with no homes and even returning citizens. 

Help us rock this project.

Help Make This
Wonderful

We are in the process of importing this content from our previous website.

This year, we focus our attention on Youth with No Shelter in Tacoma,
working with radio and other media, along with the local business,
art and music community to demonstrate what is possible
when a community comes to the aid of those that
need support at a critical stage of life.

To see what we are doing now, visit www.TacomaJOY.com
The list of organizations in the middle section on that home page are
serving youth with no shelter in our city in necessary and critically important ways.
Play a part in this important work, give generously as you feel comfortable giving,
directly to the organizations providing this critical support to youth.

It was an ambassador who said,
"How a society treats its most vulnerable is always the measure of its humanity."

With the efforts of so many, Tacoma communities can augment
the work of local government to better provide for the youth
that need our help the most, at a time we all need hope.

We are Artists 4 Life in the Sound

Giving DIRECT-TO-NEED

This year we coordinate with local organizations, musicians, artists and local radio and alternative media platforms to create an ongoing cycle of awareness addressing youth homelessness.

We already enjoy the support of many local businesses and Tacoma's music and arts culture, making it simple to focus the attention of our city on the forgotten youth with no shelter in our communities.

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Previous years, Stars 4 Peace have been used to highlight important areas of need in Tacoma's neighborhoods and have contributed important supplies like food and clothing to survivors of trauma due to abuse, youth in underprivileged communities and people with no place to stay.

Learn more from our 2017-2020 site.