Attleboro Public Schools received $4,500 to support a collaborative community design project for about 300 students in grades 4-7 and two dozen teachers working with local designers to explore the architectural renewal and revitalization of downtown Attleboro. For more information, contact Susan Casey at 508-761-7551.

The BFA awarded $3,500 to Citizen Schools in Boston to support “Kids Design,” a hands-on apprenticeship program for 100 Boston middle-school students and 50 volunteers focusing on the design of public spaces such as neighborhood parks. For more information, contact Jessica Graham at 617-695-2300 x310 or Jodie Deshmukh at 617-695-2300 x113.

Danforth Museum of Art and Museum School in Framingham received $4,500 to support a curriculum development project for grades 6 through 8 focusing on planning and design for downtown Framingham. For more information, contact Katherine French at 508-620-0050 x11.

Garfield Middle School in Revere was awarded $5,000 to support the adaptation of the Learning By Design curriculum to include beach conservation, wetlands, and transit-oriented and sustainable development. The new curriculum will provide Revere students with an opportunity to inform the anticipated transformation of their neighborhoods. For more information, contact Patricia Massa, 781-286-8296.

A $1,900 BFA grant to Gate of Heaven School in South Boston will support the shaping and implementation of “Where We Live, Where We Come Together,” an architecture curriculum for about 200 students in grades 2 through 8 that culminates in an art exhibition. For more information, contact Deborah Putnam at 617-268-8431.

The BFA awarded $4,000 to Girls Inc. of Worcester to support “Material Girls,” an architecture and construction program for girls, age 10 to 14 that builds skills and reflects social issues. For more information, contact Liz Molloy, 508-755-6455 x25.

Hawthorne Youth and Community Center in Roxbury received $3,500 to support a project in which two dozen students and their parents analyze the design and content of amusement parks and learn the skills needed to create their own “dream park.” The grant also will help produce a curriculum guide for others interested in replicating the project. For more information, contact Samantha Sadd at 617-427-0613.

A $4,000 BFA grant will help Learning By Design support the development and distribution of K-12 programs throughout Massachusetts that focus on sustainable design. For more information, contact Jan Ham, 508-528-4517.

Nueva Esperanza in Holyoke received $5,000 to help train young people and program staff members to assess environmental issues in their city and develop a plan to address those issues. For more information, contact Imre Kepes at 413-695-9671.

Rafael Hernandez School in Roxbury was awarded $5,000 to support the development and documentation of an inter-grade level outdoor classroom design curriculum that will culminate in the creation of an outdoor installation designed and built by middleschool students in collaboration with younger after-school children. For more information, contact Nadine Gerdts, 617-739-8528.

A $2,500 grant will help United Teen Equality Center in Lowell engage young people in the creation of design-development, schematic-design, and construction documents for an addition to the center’s building. The project also includes the creation of verbal and visual documentation of the project that will be distributed throughout Lowell. For more information, contact Jessica Wilson at 978-677-6102.

Worcester Arts and Magnet School and Preservation Worcester received $2,520 to support the development of a grade 4, standards-based cultural geography curriculum unit using the built environment to study regions of the United States. For more information, contact Susan O’Neil at 508-799-3575.

The BFA was chaired in 2007 by Peter Kuttner FAIA of Cambridge Seven Associates. The trustees who evaluated the 29 grant applications received this year also include these architects and allied professionals: Ron Ancrum of Associated Grant Makers, David Douvadjian of Meredith & Grew, Emil Frei of Delta Design and Construction, Roger Goldstein FAIA of Goody Clancy, Richard Green FAIA of CBT, artist Sing Hanson, Charlotte Kahn of The Boston Foundation, journalist Tom Keane, Hon. BSA, Jeremy Liu of Asian CDC, Peter Madsen FAIA of Edo Essex Properties, Gretchen Schneider Assoc. AIA of Schneider Studio, Linda Snyder of Harvard University Physical Resources and Planning, and Gail Sullivan AIA of Studio G Architects.

For more information on how to contribute to the BFA and support community programs such as those described above, contact Richard Fitzgerald at 617-951-1433 x232 or rfitzgerald@architects.org.