# Frontier Foundation The **Frontier Foundation** is an American advocacy group, founded by entrepreneur Nick Allen, that promotes Donald Trump's [[Freedom Cities]] proposal: new cities on federal land, exempt from much existing law. It is not related to the [[Electronic Frontier Foundation]]. ## The plan In 2025 the foundation worked with the [[Charter Cities Institute]] and the [[American Enterprise Institute]] on draft legislation. As reported by Bloomberg Law and *Wired*: - **Scale.** A foundation memo put the land needed at about 50,000 acres per city. - **Sites.** Federal land near Boise, Idaho; Grand Junction, Colorado; and Redmond, in Deschutes County, Oregon, were named as candidates. - **Exemptions.** Chapman University law professor Tom W. Bell, who is drafting the legal basis, proposed zones governed by a board of cabinet secretaries and exempt from nearly all federal environmental, health care, labor and tax law. - **Expansion.** The memo also recommended letting private landowners and existing municipalities opt in. Conservation groups called the plan a threat to public lands. The Wilderness Society and the Center for Biological Diversity both opposed it. ## Why it's on the map The foundation is where the [[Charter City]] became an American legislative proposal. A separate group, the [[Freedom Cities Coalition]], lobbies for the same goal on behalf of people tied to [[Próspera]]. ## See Also - [[Freedom Cities]] - [[Mark Lutter]] - [[Network State Experiments Roster]] - [[Bureau of Land Management]]