DENKAI SANCTUARY
Serving Animals & Youth in Crisis
About Us
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- Mission
- History
- Board of Directors
- Why Our Work Is Important
- Around the Nation
- Support
- Facilities
- Programs
- Management
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- Mission
Our mission is to promote healthy environments in which animals and people interact and connect through applied, environmental, and educational programs to cultivate mental and physical health.Denkai Sanctuary is unique in that it aims to provide a combination of services for animals in need, at-risk youth, and raising environmental awareness.
Denkai Sanctuary is committed to the philosophy that by providing compassion and respect for our animals and youth, we sustain the fundamentals of a peaceful world.
The Sanctuary, with two facilities located near Greeley, CO and Grover, Colorado surrounded by the beautiful and serene Pawnee National Grasslands, is home to more than 200 horses, dogs, cats and other animals on any given day who come from shelters, rescue groups and owners no longer able to care for their pets from around the United States. The Sanctuary has quickly become a destination for several hundred visitors and volunteers each year including local youth at risk who have found sanctuary themselves in the kindness offered to them.
years through very hard work and hands on daily chores, sometimes lasting late into the evening.
Thanks to a very dedicated group of volunteers who stayed with us through a very rough beginning, our sanctuary is now situated between two facilities totaling 646 acres and includes numerous outbuildings, several acres of pasture, and we are caring for more than 200 domestic animals. Since inception, volunteers have logged more than 200,000 hours helping the animals and children at Denkai.
Denkai has actively operated using sustainable energies, such as wind and solar. Denkai has doubled its fundraising income in the past year, largely through our website. Individuals who have heard about our organization can log onto our website to learn more about our efforts, and can easily make monetary donations through Network for Good.
As a leading not for profit organization, Denkai Sanctuary has provided assistance to more than 2,000 large and small domestic animals, over 6000 community youth, and over ten not for profit organizations in need during the past seven years. Currently, Denkai cares for approximately 170 animals in residence and countless others in foster care.
Every day, Denkai fights for the lives of animals in need, pregnant and nursing dogs that have been nearly starved to death by shelter workers. Horses that have seen the inside of a slaughter plant and lived to tell their tale, and a special Miracle piglet, who fell off of a truck in Iowa at the age of three weeks and was then run over by a car, left to die with a broken back. These animals are just a few of the many that we currently care for every day thanks to generous contributors. After nineteen months, Denkai has determined that it is in our best interest to purchase the Denkai Adoption Center facility in Greeley through a capital campaign.
Denkai Sanctuary’s main facility is located near Grover Colorado on 640 acres surrounded by the Pawnee National Grasslands. We have a unique organization in that we are able to work with harder to place animals in alternative settings to a typical shelter facility. Acquiring the Greeley Adoption Center will allow Denkai to bring a financially sustainable option to the whole of the organization. Denkai is currently the largest quality of life no-kill facility in Colorado and the surrounding area, providing services for municipalities, counties, and other states nationwide that have not been matched.
Denkai Sanctuary
Denkai Adoption Center
Adopt an Animal today!
Dog Boarding & Grooming
In a separate wing off of the Adoption Center
The Sanctuary, with two facilities located near Greeley, CO and Grover, Colorado surrounded by the beautiful and serene Pawnee National Grasslands, is home to more than 200 horses, dogs, cats and other animals on any given day who come from shelters, rescue groups and owners no longer able to care for their pets from around the United States. The Sanctuary has quickly become a destination for several hundred visitors and volunteers each year including local youth at risk who have found sanctuary themselves in the kindness offered to them.
- History
years through very hard work and hands on daily chores, sometimes lasting late into the evening. Thanks to a very dedicated group of volunteers who stayed with us through a very rough beginning, our sanctuary is now situated between two facilities totaling 646 acres and includes numerous outbuildings, several acres of pasture, and we are caring for more than 200 domestic animals. Since inception, volunteers have logged more than 200,000 hours helping the animals and children at Denkai.
Denkai has actively operated using sustainable energies, such as wind and solar. Denkai has doubled its fundraising income in the past year, largely through our website. Individuals who have heard about our organization can log onto our website to learn more about our efforts, and can easily make monetary donations through Network for Good.
- Floss Blackburn, President/Founder
- Alan Oster, Vice President
- Elizabeth Connell , Secretary
- Diana Palluck, Treasurer
- Dr. Julie Kidd, DVM, Medical Director
- April McGowan, Board Member
- Bob Grube, Board Member
- Visit our Board of Directors page to learn more!
- Why Our Work Is Important
As a leading not for profit organization, Denkai Sanctuary has provided assistance to more than 2,000 large and small domestic animals, over 6000 community youth, and over ten not for profit organizations in need during the past seven years. Currently, Denkai cares for approximately 170 animals in residence and countless others in foster care. Every day, Denkai fights for the lives of animals in need, pregnant and nursing dogs that have been nearly starved to death by shelter workers. Horses that have seen the inside of a slaughter plant and lived to tell their tale, and a special Miracle piglet, who fell off of a truck in Iowa at the age of three weeks and was then run over by a car, left to die with a broken back. These animals are just a few of the many that we currently care for every day thanks to generous contributors. After nineteen months, Denkai has determined that it is in our best interest to purchase the Denkai Adoption Center facility in Greeley through a capital campaign.
Denkai Sanctuary’s main facility is located near Grover Colorado on 640 acres surrounded by the Pawnee National Grasslands. We have a unique organization in that we are able to work with harder to place animals in alternative settings to a typical shelter facility. Acquiring the Greeley Adoption Center will allow Denkai to bring a financially sustainable option to the whole of the organization. Denkai is currently the largest quality of life no-kill facility in Colorado and the surrounding area, providing services for municipalities, counties, and other states nationwide that have not been matched.
Since acquiring the Adoption Center in Greeley through a lease agreement, Denkai has successfully rescued, nurtured and found homes for more than 2,000 dogs and cats, 20 horses, and numerous farm animals.
- More than 500 owned animals have benefited from our subsidized spay/neuter clinics.
- Over 100 Youth in Crisis participants have benefited from our programs.
- Over 6,000 community youth have benefited from our educational programs.
- Around the Nation
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Facilities
Denkai Sanctuary
Denkai Sanctuary is the only organization to offer services to all domestic animals, large and small. With two facilities totaling 640 acres in Weld County, Colorado, Denkai is the largest domestic animals quality of life; no-kill organization of its kind in Northern Colorado..
Denkai Adoption Center Adopt an Animal today!
Dog Boarding & Grooming
In a separate wing off of the Adoption Center
To learn more about our management please visit our Management page!
- Floss Blackburn: Founder and President
- Bastian Kruidenier: Executive Director
- Diana Palluck: Director of Operations: Greeley Adoption Center
- Heather Stowell: Kennel Manager
- Michele TeMaat: Office Manager
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Denkai Sanctuary is a public 501(c)3 not for profit organization. Contributions are tax-deductible within the means of the IRS 501(c)3 code.
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Denkai Sanctuary is a public 501(c)3 not for profit organization. Contributions are tax-deductible within the means of the IRS 501(c)3 code.