Finally, international donors tend to support professional NGOs rather than grassroots (Spires, 2011b). Professional NGOs initially have much stronger attitudes towards collaboration than grassroots (Ansell, 2003; see also Eliasoph, 2009). Thus our first hypothesis is the following: Globally integrated NGOs have more incoming and outgoing ties with other civic organization than NGOs without international integration. In other words, globally integrated NGOs are simultaneously more popular and more active. Hence, in the context of ERGM we expect positive and significant parameters for popularity and activity effects for nodes attributed as globally integrated. Confirmation of this hypothesis is the argument in favor of supporters of global connectedness.