| 1973 |
Receives Legion of Honor, Lasker Award, Humanitarian Award A.A. M.D |
| 1973 |
Receives National Volunteer Service Award |
| 1973 |
Receives Philadelphia Civic Ballet Award |
| 1974 |
Awarded Prix de Couronne Francais |
| 1984 |
Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom |
| 1993 |
Receives Freedom From Want Medal from Roosevelt Institute |
| 1995 |
Becomes the first living American woman to be portrayed on United States legal tender: the 1995 Special Olympics World Summer Games silver commemorative coin |
| 1998 |
Inducted into National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, NY |
| 1998 |
Awarded Aetna Voice of Conscience® Award |
| 1999 |
Receives Juanita Kreps Award |
| 2000 |
Recognized at the inaugural Laureus Sports Awards with the Sport for Good Award |
| 2000 |
Presented with the Noel Foundation Life award |
| 2000 |
Awarded with the Greater Washington D.C. Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Humanitarian Award |
| 2000 |
Receives the Phoenix Foundation for Children Champion of Children Award |
| 2001 |
Awarded an Honorary Degree from the Cardinal Strich University |
| 2002 |
Receives the Theodore Roosevelt Award from the National Collegiate Athletic Association |
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