Our Story
Two Roads Family Network
Two Roads Family Network was never meant to be poetic. But sometimes a name finds you.
When we were forming the company in 2024, Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken kept popping into our conversations. Not because we wanted to sound literary, but because it described exactly what was happening in real time. Parents Partnership was already doing the work, already helping families, already building community. But the pace of need was faster than spreadsheets, volunteer hours, and local outreach could keep up with. We kept hitting the same wall: the families who needed help the most also needed it the quickest.
So we made a practical decision. We needed technology, and we needed scale, and we needed both fast. The nonprofit came first, and the proof of the need came first. TRFN came after, built out of necessity to do the one thing we all agreed on: support struggling parents faster, safer, and smarter than what already existed. We chose to build a for-profit tech company because that structure allowed us to scale nationally, move quickly, and fund the mission in ways a nonprofit alone can't always do at startup speed.
We Didn't Build Two Roads to Step Away
We didn't build Two Roads to step away from the charity. Quite the opposite. We built it to hold up the charity, fuel it, and accelerate it. A large portion of our profits are committed to directly supporting Parents Partnership's charitable goals, and that will always be the case. While we may build additional charities in the future, or partner with others doing aligned work, the origin story remains the same: we saw families struggling, and we built the company that could scale the solutions that actually help them.
Who Runs the Company
We are a small leadership team with deep roots in both community work and operational build-out. Parents and technologists working side by side:
Jenny A. Trudeau
Founder & CEO
Community architect, partnership-driven leader, and mission anchor between tech and nonprofit impact
Scott Netzley
Chief Financial Officer
Strategy, compliance, financial structure, and long-term sustainability
Kush Powers
Chief Technology Officer
Product development, systems design, and platform scalability
Megan Brown
Vice President
Partnerships, execution, community outreach, and launch operations
Drew Trudeau
Director of Marketing
Audience growth, brand strategy, messaging, and organic community expansion
Why This Road Made Sense
The "road less traveled" isn't about rejecting what came before. It's about recognizing that the traditional paths available to families, especially online communities and institutional support systems, were too slow, too unsafe, or too impersonal for parents who are juggling jobs, kids, finances, and real life.
Moves Quickly
We respond to family needs faster than traditional systems can
Protects Privacy
Family privacy and safety are built into everything we do
Connects Without Trapping
Parents can connect meaningfully without being locked into platforms
Scales Solutions
We bring solutions to places parents already trust
The Simple Truth
We're a tech company powered by nonprofit purpose. We're parent-led, community-built, and partnership-driven. And if there's a core theme to our story, it's not about any one person. It's this: when families are supported with the right tools and networks, they get stronger, faster.
We just built the company that can finally take that truth to scale.
No fluff. No façade. Just a network, built by parents and builders who were tired of waiting for better.
We took the other road because it worked.
Turns out? It still does.