Mrs. Robbins has had a long professional and volunteer career in community organization, fund development and planning for older adults. She has been on the boards of Tower One-Tower East, Jewish Family Service and The Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven. In that capacity she has served as campaign chair, the board of the Jewish Foundation and President of Federation. She continues to be an active member of the Federation and on the Board. She serves on a national committee of the Jewish Federation of North America advocating for older adults and disseminating information on issues such as care giving, dementia, isolation and disabilities.

Currently she is a member of the patient advocacy committee of New England Medical Group, a part of Yale New Haven Health and on the Board of Call to Care Uganda, a group that provides resources to provide wells for clean water in remote villages in Uganda.