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Operation Backpack

Preparing Children for Success in the Classroom.

Readers Are Leaders

A 10-week Reading Program for 3rd Graders

Heroes & Helpers

Our Annual Holiday Shopping Spree with Law Enforcement

Fiesta with a Purpose 2023

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Why We Do What We Do

Creating Everlasting Impact

For over a decade, the Shop with a Cop Foundation of Silicon Valley has hosted hundreds of students for a holiday shopping spree with local Bay Area police officers. For many of the children, this special opportunity becomes the only holiday experience they will have.

Building Bridges Between Law Enforcement and the Community

Shop with a Cop Foundation of Silicon Valley fosters continued mutual respect between law enforcement and the communities they serve. Through engendering trust in the community and changing the narrative, children see police officers through a different lens.

We strive to build bridges of collaboration and strategically invest in education, leadership development, and capacity-building programs to help at-risk youth achieve their fullest potential.

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Testimonials

I want to thank Shop with the Cop Foundation for all the blessings they’ve given my family. You are all true heroes! Alicia and Darrell have helped me so much and have become role models for me. Alicia has tutored me when I was struggling in school, she helped me and my brother get our uniforms and school supplies. During Christmas time Alicia signed us up for a shopping spree at Target with heroes of our community! I’m so grateful for Shop with a Cop and all the donors, volunteers, and supporters. You all have impacted my life as well as other families in need.

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Santee Elementary

The Shop with a Cop program has created an incentive based reading program that encourages students at my school to develop a passion for reading. SWAC knows that reading is a life long skill that students will need in order access higher level education and careers, </br>so by fostering the desire to read SWAC is investing into the futures of each of our students.

Robert Flores

4th Grade Teacher | Santee Elementary School

Shop With a Cop helps motivate students to read because they want us to know how to read better so that in the future we can use our reading skills in real life. I participated in the Shop With a Cop Shopping Spree when I was in 5th grade. It was so fun. I enjoyed talking to my cop while shopping. The best part was when we sat to eat and all the cops were talking to us.

I would like to thank Shop with a Cop for what they do for me and my school because they are the reason I now read constantly. I know that others at my school didn’t like reading, but now they do thanks to Shop with a Cop.

Judith Hernandez

6th Grade Student | Santee Elementary School

Sometimes all it takes is for one positive experience to change someone’s entire perspective. Shop with a Cop Silicon Valley often does exactly that for children and their parents. A child benefitting from seeing police officers as community helpers is an amazing thing to witness, and it makes me proud to be connected to this organization as a volunteer and donor.

Linda White

Volunteer and Donor

I am very grateful I was able to participate in the Shop with Cop events. I have to say that watching the joy on children’s faces was something I will never forget. Shop with a Cop gives children and police officers much need opportunity to interact in a fun and positive way. This interaction helps with developing a trusting relationship between the community and the police.

Marie Molnar

Santa Clara County Deputy Sheriff / Volunteer officer

Shop With A Cop creates positive incentives for children to want to read and learn; while building a bridge with the law enforcement community. As a by-product of this, I also feel the law enforcement officers that attend events and volunteer get acknowledged for their hard work (which is so needed in recent years). The founders, Darrel and Alicia Cortez are so dedicated to their mission that it makes me want to help out through volunteering and donating.

Kris Myers

Realtor/Stager

Shop With a Cop is an outstanding organization doing meaningful work in our community! Whether it is distributing backpacks, books and school supplies at the beginning of the school year, or passing out toys to children who otherwise might go without at Christmas, Shop With a Cop is making a difference. This organization provides a wonderful opportunity to strengthen the relationship between the police and the community. I wholeheartedly support the work of Shop With a Cop!