Dafna Orly Ronen said:

and thank you for providing the second link, it is great and it clearly defines omidyars investments in the community and the world.

To clarify: the second link (http://www.omidyar.net/group/on/ ws/community_favorites/) lists the investments that were directed by members of the community (Omidyar Network provided the money, the omidyar.net community members decided where the money should go). Left to our own devices, Omidyar Network likely never would have found some of these recipients, and that's why empowering the community has been helpful to find places of need we wouldn't have seen before.

Dafna Orly Ronen further said:

why is omidyar.net’s focus so clearly on “developing countries” and not also the huge and tragic issues plaguing the u.s? i believe in self-empowerment, but i also firmly believe in charity. good old fashioned “do for others what they cannot do for themselves” charity. after all, it is hard to teach a starving man how to fish. if you can, feed him until he learns to fish, however long the learning curve.

If you're referring to the omidyar.net community's focus on "developing countries" you should instead post this as an open question to the community at large.

If you're referring to Omidyar Network's focus (seen at http://www.omidyar.net/portfolio .php), I don't see the emphasis on "developing countries" that you do. If this is the case, can you help me understand how you see it that way?