"a founding commitment" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It may be used to refer to a promise or obligation that was made at the start of a business, project, organization, etc. For example: "The success of the company is due to its founder's unwavering commitment to the original plan, a founding commitment which she has never wavered from."
Our nation's founding commitment is still our deepest commitment: In our world, and here at home, we will extend the frontiers of freedom.
Cameron moved to reassure his Polish counterpart that he was not seeking to discriminate against Poles in Britain and stressed that he was not seeking to undermine the EU's founding commitment to free movement.
In 2008, then Senator Barack Obama endorsed a "lasting and durable settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict that is agreeable to all parties, and based upon America's founding commitment to the principles of democracy and self-determination".
Universal healthcare was one of the country's founding commitments; citizens see hospitals and schools as the last remaining benefits of the former command economy.
Universal healthcare was one of the North Korean state's founding commitments to its people, but hospitals in the country are said to have have deteriorated badly, with some believing that sanctions are contributing to the problem.
When MCF made our founding commitment to cross-issue movement building, these young leaders were in grade school.
Still, if Mr Primakov wanted to impress western lenders with a new-found commitment to sound finance, biffing Mr Smolensky might help.Two other tycoons with more modest political ambitions stand a chance of keeping in with Russia's new rulers.
She said of Mr Salmond's childcare vision: "What he had was an opportunity to show his new-found commitment to childcare was more than a referendum ploy and start delivering for working families and children now".
The recent appointment of a respected non-Baathist, Abdullah Dardari, as deputy prime minister with broad oversight of economic policy, suggests a will to push the limits of the party's new-found commitment to what it calls a "social market economy".
It is unclear if the Tigers' new-found commitment to peace talks is sincere, or just a sham to discourage foreign governments from seizing the rest of their money while they quietly rearm and prepare to resume the war.In all, even without the political crisis that Mrs Kumaratunga has whipped up, the chances of achieving a peace settlement this time were only fair, at best.
