jenkins is a member of the authors guild, pen american center, the executive council of the association of american publishers’ professional and scholarly division, and is active in civic, professional and charitable affairs as a board member. he is the founder of the broadway bound fund, which provides acting classes to youngsters through the armory foundation of new york city; the chairman of the american publishers awards for professional and scholarly excellence, also known as the prose awards ; a member of the board of visitors of the philip merrill college of journalism at the university of maryland, college park; and a member of the board of directors of the center for responsive politics in washington, d.c. he served on the federal advisory committee of the commerce department’s national technical information service, the board of directors of the friends of the law library of congress, and the board of directors of the software and information industry association.