Helping children, youth and families realize their strengths and dreams. Helping children and youth learn essential competencies and hopefulness with which they can overcome adversity and transform their lives and communities. NorthStar’s mission is “to help young people overcome poverty, discrimination, educational disadvantage, violence, and other adversity through learning essential competencies and hopefulness with which they can transform their lives and communities. In advocacy and public policy, we as a minority-led nonprofit organization advance diversity as a strength and resource to open pathways to create a better life.”