Homeboy Industries serves a greater number of gang-involved men and women in Los Angeles than does any other organization. In this community, 86,000 to 96,000 young people are members of an estimated 1,000 to 1,300 gangs, and gang-related homicides (which account for half of all homicides) have increased since hitting a ten-year low in 1999. Homeboy Industries places or employs, and regularly monitors and evaluates the progress and success of, about 300 young people per year. Seventy-three percent of clients are 18 to 35 years old, and 60 percent are male. Homeboy Industries measures its success not only by its participants' employment but also its persistence (since 1988), its increasingly diversified training, and its increasingly diverse clients.