The Penn Center is seeking a visionary and strategic Executive Director. Penn Center is a multi-service 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and preserving Penn Center’s true history and culture through its commitment to education, community development, and social justice.

The Wilson Center’s partnership with the South Carolina’s Penn Center had its first year of public programs with students and faculty from colleges and universities across the Southeast.

Penn Center, Inc., is participating in the Summer Food Service Program. Meals will be provided to all children 18 years old and younger without charge.

The Penn Center (St. Helena Island, South Carolina) is honored to have received a generous and transformative gift from the novelist and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott.

Thank you to our outgoing trustees and welcome to our incoming trustees as we begin our work in 2022.

Listen to Deloris Pringle, trustee from the Penn Center, as she joins Matt McNeil on AM 950 in conversation about African-American history in South Carolina and the Penn Center's role in preservation efforts.

Funds will be used to transform the Museum and other visitor experiences across its 47-acre campus, create a new, onsite preservation and storage space that will safeguard the center’s artifacts; and establish a new director of exhibitions to guide the creation of exhibitions and interpretative experiences.

Come check out our all-new website!