By initiatives, I assume you mean past mentorships.
You can see Alberto from yield in this proposal here and he hired:
Devtooligan https://twitter.com/devtooligan
Owleksiy https://twitter.com/owpckcr
Alejandro from Synthetix made this one here and hired:
Mati https://twitter.com/_mjlescano
Leo who I don’t follow sorry
Then he made one for Aelin and brought:
Saeta https://twitter.com/saetaeth
Alex did one for Badger and hired, Tabish who then worked for AAVE and founded code4arena
Tabish https://twitter.com/tabishjshaikh?lang=en
Jeremy Chiaramonte did one for Kwenta and hired:
Jared https://twitter.com/Jared_Borders
The DAO has a donation site here and basically, anyone opening a mentorship knew they could request funds.