The State Grants Management Section (SGMS) was created to research numerous federal and foundation sources in order to find funding opportunities available to state agencies, local governments, and non-profit organizations. Other duties of SGMS include providing technical assistance in prospect research and grant writing, notifying state agencies, units of local governments and non-profit organizations of funding opportunities, maintaining the Louisiana Assistance Resource Center (LARC) and reporting grant award and expenditure information of state agencies and eventually local government "pass-through" funds. It is the State Grant Management Section's goal to increase awareness of availability of such funds and programs available to state agencies, units of local governments and non-profit organizations, reduce duplication of efforts and unnecessary competition within and among state agencies and build capacity through increased collaboration and training.

The Louisiana Assistance Resource Center is a searchable web-based database where resources are identified for the appropriate state and/or local government officials and non-profit agencies.