do it in the name of the community

The Amazing Atheist, from youtube has raised money and gotten a lot of help for disaster victims. We could do the same thing when this site gets big enough to have enough people in one spot to get a crowd together

One of the few things religion is actually good for (sort of, sometimes) is community and refuge.

In order to build a viable sense of community you need a shared experience or belief. In my view, atheism is far too narrow to support that.

Also atheists tend not to be joiners, working with them is like herding cats. Plus, for obvious reasons, most of them are suspicious of being herded. There's a reason there are millions of atheists in the US, but only about 20,000 belong to American Atheists.

Alain de Botton and his "Atheism 2.0" concept is an effort in the direction of trying to learn something from religion but for the reasons mentioned above I am not optimistic anything much will come of it.

I think there are nonreligious service groups already. However I think most nonreligious persons who do service do so individually, because our interests vary so greatly.

Of course.

Why not? If something benefits the community, why wouldn't the non-religious want to do that?
No point in letting the religious have all the fun.

I don't follow?? What sort of thing are you thinking? An example might be... say... a Chocolate Communion?