Additionally, Rev. Thompkins is CEO of the Justice and Peace Foundation - an organization continuing the tradition of building the beloved community. As CEO of the JPF organization Rev. Thompkins launched initiatives in the areas of African American Spirituality and Mental Health, advanced the dialogue surrounding the reform and reimagining of policing in the US, and initiated the Talk Truth Project that conducted non-partisan training of political parties, non-profit organizations, and individual citizens on how to deescalate high conflict conversations with the goals of increasing political efficacy in the United States.

JPF also led a national community participatory research project among African American Churches in the areas of grief, trauma, and ministry. Rev. Thompkins also serves on the American Psychological Association’s task force for the development of Spiritual Competencies for Mental Health education. He has authored several books, academic papers, and is often called upon to offer his perspectives and opinions on race, health care, and spirituality. His recently published book "Nobody Told Me That The Road Would Be Easy: a spiritual support to those who are engaged in working for justice and peace in the world" has been selected by several ministerial book study groups.

As an Assistant and Associate Dean of Religious Life, Rev. Thompkins served two world-class institutions, Stanford University ( 12 years) and Princeton University (2 years). While at serving as a dean, Rev. Thompkins was asked to serve as Interim Pastor of Jerusalem Baptist Church in Palo Alto, California. As a Leader in the community, he has developed unique, highly effective programs to empower underserved teenage youth and young adults in urban and rural areas—in East Palo Alto, CA and rural South Georgia. As a Pastor, he pastored Antioch Baptist Church, the second oldest African American Church west of the Mississippi and Covenant Christian Church in Douglas, GA.

As Vice President of SFTS Center for Innovation in Ministry Rev. Thompkins was one of the national faith leaders invited to participate in “The Ethics of Reciprocity: A United Nations Historic Interfaith Dialogue” This event addressed the role of the faith community in supporting and/or combating homophobia around the world. During his tenure at the Center for Innovation in Ministry Rev. Thompkins, along with Michael Adea, convened the first national Trans led Presbyterian conference, in Charlottesville, VA for the support and advocacy of Trans people within the Presbyterian Church USA. Rev. Thompkins also serves as the United Campus Christian Minister of Palo Alto where his work currently includes facilitating a multigenerational dialogue project among and with the LGBTQI.

In 1982 he was selected as one of the six original consultants to the SF AIDS Activity Office to help design the AIDS prevention strategy for the County of San Francisco. As an outgrowth of that consultation, he helped found and was hired as the original Deputy Director of the UCSF AIDS Health Project. As a visiting scholar at Stanford University, he co-directed the HIV Bereavement and Caregiver Study. His contributions to the psychological literature include material on LGBTQ+ bullying, gay men's health, suicide and culture, end of life issues, HIV and work, AIDS bereavement, and Affirmative Therapy. He is the author of three highly acclaimed books: Strategies for Survival: A Gay Men's Health Manual for the Age of AIDS (with Martin Delaney), Working with AIDS Bereavement (with Sarah Erickson), Youth Suicide and Bullying (with Dorothy Espelage). He was awarded the APA Division 44 Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training Award in 2013.

Since his retirement, Dr Goldblum has worked as Behavioral Health Consultant to Reverend Floyd Thompkins in Project Trust, including serving as the key designer of a training seminar for Kaiser Permanente that encouraged collaboration between mental health providers and spiritual providers. Working with a community collaborative project, Dr Goldblum, Professor Lisa Brown and Reverend Thompkinsco-authored Using Cross-Cultural Collaboration to Establish a Working Coalition for An Equitable COVID-19 Vaccine Program (Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 2023) that proposed a model of Cross Cultural Collaboration.

In March of 2023, Rev Thompkins, Peter Goldblum, and Stanford/PGSP psychology graduate student William Booker developed a model for intergenerational and cross-cultural engagement within the Queer Community. In September of 2023, a group of thought leaders was convened-- sponsored by the United Campus Christian Ministries-- to discuss Queer Siloization. Based on this discussion, two versions of “Finding Shared Experiences: A LGBTQ Intergenerational Dialogue presented to a diverse group Queer community members, facilitated by Rae Ingram and David Patino, skilled group multicultural group leaders.