Why do we suppose that globally
integrated NGOs tend to engage with each other? First of all, aid of
international donors is one of the key recourses for local NGOs from different
developing countries. Of course, the size of international aid can vary
substantially in different countries; it depends on many conditions. However,
even in our empirical case (Kazakhstan – a country, where local NGOs received
only modest support from international/foreign donors), more than fifty per
cent of examined NGOs received international and/or foreign grants; and these
grants were the key source of revenue for 17.66 per cent of them. According
Wimmer and Lewis (2010), the group size affect homophily: the bigger the size
of a group, the more easily for members will form homophilious in-group ties. This
mechanism is termed “availability”
(Wimmer & Lewis, 2010).