Members of globally integrated NGOs
regularly meet on various trainings, workshops or seminars, and are more likely
to be familiar with each other rather than with their local colleagues from
globally disintegrated civic organizations. As a consequence, if they need a
project partner, they will be quick to find him/her among immediate
acquaintances. Thus, global integration creates foci which foster partnership
(Feld, 1981), or runs the propinquity
mechanism (WImmer & Lewis, 2010).