HONORS AND AWARDS

32nd Annual Thurman Munson Award – AHRC NYC – 2012

Goodemote Humanitarian Award – the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health – 2011
Big Brothers Big Sisters NYC – Achievement in Public Service Award - 2011
Steve Patterson Award for Excellence in Sports Philanthropy by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – 2010

President Obama honored Mutombo as he was awarded the John Thompson Jr. Legacy of a Dream Award – 2010

Dikembe Mutombo and Bruce Springsteen honored by the Ellis Island Family Heritage Foundation Award – 2010

Miracle Corners of the World Award - 2010
Laureus World Sports for Good Award - 2010
Mutombo made NBA’s first Global Ambassador - 2009
J. Walker Kennedy Citizenship Award - 2009
USA Weekend Magazine – Most Caring Athlete Award - 2009
William F. Ryan Community Health Network Honors - 2008
Inducted into the Sports Humanitarian Hall of Fame - 2007
President George W. Bush in his State of the Union Address recognizes Dikembe Mutombo – January 2007
Awarded the Jackie Robinson Humanitarian Award from the United States Sports Academy. At the presentation, Mutombo received the Academy's Order of the Eagle Exemplar
Awarded first African-American Legacy Council Creed Medal. The award honors Courtlandt Van Rensselaer Creed, the first African-American graduate of the Yale School of Medicine. 
ABC’s Person of the Week
Essence Magazine’s 2001 Achiever
Sporting News’ No. 1 Good Guy
Trailblazer Award – The Constituency for Africa
The J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award
The Ernie Davis Humanitarian Award
The Samuel J. Halsey Award
First Youth Emissary for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
World Economic Forum - Young Global Leader
Wilt Chamberlain Award – Operation Smile
Honorary Degree, Doctor of Humane Letters - State University of New York College at Cortland,
NAACP Phoenix Award
The Henry Iba Citizen Athlete Award
The President’s Service Award (2000)
Board member - The George Washington University Africa Center for Health and Security.
Mutombo has been featured in Europe’s TIME magazine, Sports Illustrated for Kids, the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Delta Sky Magazine and the Houston Chronicle.
Mutombo also served on the Advisory Board for the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health.
Chairman and President of the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation since 1997.