Daniel Weyl
Daniel Weyl is Co-Founder and Principal at Four Corners Global Consulting Group. His areas of expertise include project design and program development, measurement and evaluation, strategic planning, and communications.
For more than a decade, Daniel has worked across the philanthropic, public, and non-profit sectors, designing, managing, and evaluating human rights, humanitarian, and social justice programs. At Four Corners, Daniel works with clients to evaluate and maximize the impact of grant-funded initiatives; promote organizational sustainability and success through strategic planning, change management, and fundraising; and elevate leadership and culture practices that foster inclusion of marginalized communities. Daniel enjoys working in close and authentic partnership with clients and facilitating workshops on topics ranging from theories of change and data equity to grants development and management.
Prior to Four Corners, Daniel served as the inaugural Director of Grants Development and Compliance at Malcolm X College, where he established and formalized an institutional grants program, secured nearly $12 million in funding for new and existing initiatives to promote educational equity, facilitated college-wide training for staff and faculty, and led donor cultivation efforts. Previously, Daniel served as a Grants Officer at The Rotary Foundation, where he evaluated and strengthened foundation-funded projects in 17 countries across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, awarding over $21 million in funding. Daniel launched his career at Heartland Alliance International, where he coordinated the nation’s first resource center for LGBTQ refugees and went on to oversee and advance a dynamic $15 million grant portfolio composed of mental health, counter-trafficking, and gender-based violence prevention programs spanning the Middle East, Central Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean.
Daniel earned his bachelor’s degree in cultural anthropology from Beloit College in Wisconsin, and a master’s degree in public policy and administration from Northwestern University. Daniel previously served on the advisory council of Avodah, a Jewish social justice organization, and is currently a board member of the Next Generation Society for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Illinois. When not at work, Daniel can be found hosting dinners with his husband, playing guitar, and following local and national politics.