Two of the world’s leading microfinance institutions are the 2005 winners of Grameen Foundation USA’s (GFUSA) Microfinance Practitioner Awards. Swayam Krishi Sangam (SKS) of India will receive the Excellence Award and Fonkoze of Haiti will receive the Pioneer Award on November 2, 2005, at GFUSA’s annual Microfinance Practitioners Awards Dinner at the Links Club in New York City. Together, SKS and Fonkoze reach more than 150,000 of the world’s poorest people.