Andrew - the man behind The McKelvey Foundation

The McKelvey Foundation is a charitable organization based in New York established in 2000 by American businessman and founder of Monster Worldwide Inc., Andrew McKelvey.

The Foundation offers scholarships to young people for acquiring college education, and has awarded over 600 scholarships.
 
The foundation grew out of the enterprise of Andrew who was one of the first to see promise in online job sites.
 
When Andrew died in December 2008, Steve Lohr of The New York Times commented:

“Andrew J. McKelvey, a serial entrepreneur who in his early 60s jumped into Internet commerce as the executive who built Monster.com into the leading job recruitment Web site, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 74.The cause was pancreatic cancer, his daughter Christine McKelvey said.

“Before his work with Monster.com, Mr. McKelvey created a company called Telephone Marketing Programs, which became the nation's largest Yellow Pages advertising agency.

“Begun in 1967 in borrowed office space and with one part-time assistant, TMP Worldwide, as it was later named, grew to employ thousands of workers and handle nearly a third of the American Yellow Pages ad business.

“Mr. McKelvey combined hard work, persistence and deft timing. He explained his philosophy in an interview with The New York Times four years ago. "What you do in business is, you follow your nose," Mr. McKelvey said. "The secret of success is being in the right place at the right time."

“Mr. McKelvey followed that dictum repeatedly over the years. After graduating from Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pa., where he also found time to run a movie theater and serve a stint in the Army, Mr. McKelvey headed to Australia.

“In Australia, Mr. McKelvey began a music jukebox business that became one of the largest such concerns in the country.

“By the early 1960s, Mr. McKelvey decided that advertising was a promising growth industry and that New York was the place to be.

“In 1963, he moved to another agency and started the Yellow Pages ad agency, TMP, which he built up with a steady stream of corporate acquisitions.

“It was Mr. McKelvey's foray beyond Yellow Pages into help-wanted agencies in the 1990s that introduced him to Internet commerce.

“Mr. McKelvey wanted to buy Adion, a Boston-area recruitment ad agency run by Jeffrey Taylor. When they met, Taylor was most excited by a little sideline, a fledgling Web site, the Monster Board.

“Mr. McKelvey was skeptical at first that the Web was going to be the future of job searches, said George R. Eisele, a former board member of Monster Worldwide, the parent company, and a longtime business associate of Mr. McKelvey. But he eventually became convinced, bought Adion in 1995, and pursued the Internet strategy with a vengeance. He quickly bought Online Career Center, Monster's larger rival at the time.

“Mr. McKelvey invested heavily over the next few years, including buying Super Bowl ads that helped make Monster.com the popular first choice for online job searching.

“Mr. McKelvey, who was married six times, is survived by two sons, Geoffrey McKelvey, of Stuart, Fla., and Stuart McKelvey, of Mamaroneck, N.Y.; two daughters, Christine and Amanda McKelvey, both of Manhattan; and six grandchildren.”