Two Of A Kind Mothers and daughters learn how to run a small business.

Envision the typical 13-year-old girl. A whirling mass ofhormones might not be far off the mark. But starting a homebasedbusiness with her mother? That's the scenario Dr. MarilynKourilsky, vice president of the Kansas City, Missouri-based Centerfor Entrepreneurial Leadership at the Ewing Marion KauffmanFoundation created in 1995 with the Mother and DaughterEntrepreneurs in Teams (MADE-IT) program operating in four cities:Des Moines, Iowa; Sacramento, California; Eugene, Oregon; andMiami.

MADE-IT is a two-year project that provides 13- and 14-year-oldgirls and their moms with the knowledge it takes to operate ahomebased business. One of the program's primary goals is forthe duos to use profits from their businesses to finance thedaughters' college educations.

"The program is daughter-driven. We look for girls who arecreative, imaginative, show leadership potential and aremotivated," says Susann Siebke, program coordinator of theIowa MADE-IT program at Des Moines' Drake University.