OAKLAND — Five Oakland arts and cultural nonprofits received a total of $100,000 in grants and technical assistance to continue serving communities of color in Oakland.

The funding and technical assistance is coming from a new program by Oakland’s Akonadi Foundation, which works to advance racial justice. In addition to financial support, the nonprofits will receive training on how to sustain their organizations.

The nonprofits in the program include BAY-Peace, which offers leadership programs in performing arts to youth of color in Oakland; the Inter-tribal Friendship House, which connects local Native Americans to their culture and traditions; the Oakland Public Conservatory’s Music is eXtraordinary program, which offers music education and hosts events; Somos Familia, which offers support for Latino LGBTQ youth and their families; and Studio Grand, a multi-use music and performance space.

BAY-Peace program manager Leilani Salvador-Jones said the grant will help the organization launch a new campaign called Drop The MIC — which in this case stands for Military Industrial Complex. Through the campaign, the organization will offer youth-led workshops centered on “manifestations of violence” such as police brutality, racism, militarization of schools and the “school-to-prison pipeline,” Salvador-Jones told the Oakland Tribune.

The organization also plans to use funds to fund a theater production workshop, she said.

Salvador-Jones said the technical training it will receive is much needed.

“The training is really essential for us because we are a recent organization,” she said. “The work of actually leading an organization as well as creating sustainable practices for the organization is new to us, and we’re hoping that working with some other professionals will help us create that and for it to be sustainable beyond us.”

She said the Akondai Foundation has been BAY-Peace’s “biggest supporter” since its birth in 2007.

“Without the Akonadi Foundation, we would not be able to carry out a lot of the work we’ve been doing for the past few years,” Salvador-Jones said.

With lower home prices, more Californians could afford a home purchase in the fourth quarter of 2018 compared to the previous quarter, but the California Association of Realtors reports higher interest rates lowered affordability from the previous year for most counties.