Community, commitment and crowd funding

If I were to tell you that a successful female business owner who grew her core business product by 200% in her first year, and whose overall business experienced growth of 136% in that first year, went to her bank for a $20,000 leaseholder loan and was told that she needed to have her husband act as a co-signer, you’d probably think this was a story from 1955. Sadly, this true tale took place less than six months ago.

As the owner-operator of the immensely successful Revel Caffè in Stratford, Ontario, Anne Campion is a visionary. She travels to the farms where her coffee beans originate to