Guiding Your Journey: From Acceptance to Enrollment
Our Mission
Enrolled
Your support transforms a student’s life by ensuring their journey concludes with a successful arrival from their home country to the United States. You provide the hope and essential resources needed to arrive on campus and complete enrollment.
Accepted
We share the joy of your first victory. Because international student enrollment rates are reaching all time lows, your gift today is the essential bridge that transforms an admission letter into a gift. Your gift today is the essential bridge that transforms an admission letter into an actual first day on campus.
Supported
Navigating F-1 visa applications and passport logistics can be daunting and expensive. Ahavah Rising Stars was created to ensure this process runs smoothly through expert guidance and support. Your gift ensures accomplished scholars don’t have their enrollment blocked because of financial hurdles.
Accepted But U.S. Enrollment of International Students is at an All Time Low.
The Crisis and The Cure
National studies show that many international students who are accepted to U.S. universities even with full tuition support are ultimately unable to enroll. The reason is not academic readiness, but the high cost of non‑tuition expenses, including:
- Visa and immigration fees
- International travel and flights
- Housing and required enrollment deposits
In recent years, India has experienced a drop in new international enrollments as costs rise with visa related fees.
Africa and Latin America remain especially vulnerable, where visa costs, currency shocks, and travel costs prevent admitted students from enrolling.
These students were accomplished. They were accepted. They simply ran out of time, money, or support.
Why This Matters to All of Us
International students strengthen the United States in measurable and lasting ways. Before the pandemic, they contributed over $40 billion annually to the U.S. economy and supported hundreds of thousands of jobs.
They also:
- Power graduate programs in STEM, medicine, and research
- Sustain innovation and entrepreneurship
- Become long‑term contributors to U.S. communities and the workforce
When an admitted student cannot enroll, universities lose more than tuition. They lose talent, research capacity, and global connection.
The Cure: Meeting Students at the Critical Moment
Ahavah Rising Stars Foundation, rooted in the Hebrew word Ahavah meaning love, exists to meet this moment. We intervene at the most critical juncture: the gap between acceptance and enrollment. By reducing enrollment‑related barriers, we ensure that students who have earned admission to U.S. colleges and universities can translate that success into actual enrollment and long‑term achievement.
Where Your Gift Changes Everything
The most important truth is this: Many international students don’t fail to enroll because they lack merit, but because they lack last‑mile support.
A relatively small donation can:
- Cover a visa fee or travel cost
- Bridging a sudden currency collapse or tuition shortfall
- Fund housing deposits or arrival expenses
- Provide legal or advising support during visa delays
Research shows that targeted funding significantly increases the likelihood that admitted international students actually enroll.
For one student, your gift can mean:
- A seat in a classroom instead of an unopened acceptance letter
- A research lab instead of a lost opportunity
- A future shaped not stalled
For more information on international enrollment trends, visit https://www.nafsa.org.
Accepted. Supported. Enrolled. • Accepted. Supported. Enrolled. • Accepted. Supported. Enrolled. •
01. ACCEPTED
Admission is a hard-won victory. We celebrate the student's achievement and immediately start the work of turning that acceptance letter into a confirmed seat at their dream U.S. university. Your gift today ensures a brilliant scholar's acceptance doesn't just stay a dream on paper but becomes a real journey to campus.
02. SUPPORTED
The path to campus is often blocked by sudden logistical gaps. Navigating F-1 visas and complex documentation can be overwhelming. Ahavah Rising Stars stands with students by providing urgent support for every immigration and financial requirement needed to turn daunting barriers into a clear way forward.
03. CAMPUS ENROLLMENT
One person's gift today is a scholars realization of a dream. From campus arrival to first day of classes. Your generosity ensures a scholar's acceptance letter is bridged to enrollment is finalized. Accepted Supported Enrolled.
Your Support Changes Lives One Donation at a Time.
Where every contribution changes a life by turning a students accepteed letter into , a seat in a classroom.
How You Can Be The Bridge
- Direct Giving: Impact lives instantly through our Givebutter platform.
- Stock Donator: Support our scholars with tax-efficient gifts.
Donating stock that has grown in value is a deeply impactful way to invest in the success of our scholars.
By contributing appreciated securities, you can avoid capital gains tax and maximize the reach of your generosity.
We invite you to explore this tax-efficient giving option by visiting the Donate Stock To Ahavah Rising Stars Foundation, Inc. site, where your support helps bridge the gap to enrollment for students across the globe.
Your support doesn’t just change a single outcome it strengthens classrooms, fuels innovation, and affirms a simple truth: when we lead with love, opportunity follows.
With heartfelt gratitude for your partnership,
Founder, Ahavah Rising Stars Foundation
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One Meal. One Mission. Many Futures.
On Thursday, February 12, every online Panda Express order using our code becomes hope for an international student who has done everything right: earned acceptance into a U.S. college, but is standing at the edge of their dream because of financial barriers.
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That’s what we’re fighting for.
For some students, this fundraiser means:
• A visa fee they couldn’t afford
• A flight that makes college possible
• The final step between acceptance and enrollment
I believe with my whole heart that when a community shows up, dreams move forward. But I can’t reach every office, every school, every neighborhood on my own.
That’s where you come in. If each of us shares this flyer just once—we don’t just raise funds… we raise futures.
🙏 Please print it. Please share it. Please talk about it. Let’s make this the biggest community fundraiser ever: one meal, one flyer, one act of love at a time.
Thank you for standing with me. Thank you for standing with these students. Thank you for believing that love in action still changes the world. 💛
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