The phrase "active foundation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to organizations, projects, or systems that are currently functioning or engaged in activities.
Example: "The active foundation of our community program has allowed us to implement several new initiatives this year."
Alternatives: "dynamic base" or "operational groundwork".
More than three-fifths of active foundations today were established after 1989.
Many of our education, health, science, energy and arts policies have been mediated from left and right by active foundations.
The number of foundations has more than doubled since 1980 to nearly 47,000, and newly active foundations were responsible for one-fifth of the rise in foundation giving from 1997 to 1998.
As of 1998, there were 1,462 active foundations in New Jersey, according to Steven Lawrence, director of research for the Foundation Center, an organization that collects, organizes and analyzes information on foundations.
In 2009 the number of active foundations rose only a marginal 0.5%–the slowest annual rate of growth tracked since 1981.
Sixty members of the French Academy of Sciences have written to the chancellor of the Institute of France, historian Gabriel de Broglie, objecting to Allègre's position at the new Fondation Ecologie d'Avenir, one of some 100 active foundations sheltered by the institute.
Current advancements in the design of biologically active foundations shed light on proven scaffolds and substrates, but cannot be used to design and predict success from the bottom-up.
Validation against a physical experiment was first carried out using measurements obtained from an experimental set-up of a thermo-active foundation.
The model was also used to investigate the thermal interaction between the thermo-active foundation and the building above it using annual simulations based on hourly weather data for Boulder, CO.
In particular, it is found that thermo-active foundation can increase a building's ground-coupled slab heat loss for 57% of hours during the heating season when compared to a standard foundation.
